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Want to know what the Bible says about Overcoming Temptation? Here are 134 Bible verses about Overcoming Temptation from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Mark 8:11 NIV
The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven.
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Romans 7:24-25 NIV
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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Matthew 22:18 NIV
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
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Hebrews 4:15-16 NIV
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are —yet he did not sin. 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
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Luke 4:2 NIV
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
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Psalm 1:1-2 NIV
1 Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
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James 1:13-15 NIV
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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James 1:3 NIV
because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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Proverbs 4:14-15 NIV
14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
    or walk in the way of evildoers.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
    turn from it and go on your way.
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Revelation 13:8 NIV
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
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