Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
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