James 1:13
qLet no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with 2evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
μηδεὶς πειραζόμενος λεγέτω ὅτι Ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ πειράζομαι· ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς ἀπείραστός ἐστι κακῶν, πειράζει δὲ αὐτὸς οὐδένα·
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1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Psalms 5:3-5:5 3. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Habakkuk 1:12 ¶Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
Jeremiah 44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
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Or, evils.
neither with his mouth, nor so much as in his heart, blasphemously cast the blame of his sins upon God, to clear himself.
so stirred up to sin as to be drawn to it.
either solicited by God to sin, or enforced to it.
cannot be drawn aside to any thing that is unrighteous, by any motion from within, or impression from without.
doth no way seduce or enforce to sin, so as to be justly chargeable as the author of it.
God is said to be tempted, Exo 17:2,7 Deu 6:16 Psa 78:41; and to tempt, Gen 22:1 Deu 8:2 13:3.
Both are to be understood of temptations of exploration, or for the discovery of something that was before hidden. Men tempt God, that they may know what he will do; God tempts men, that they (not he, for he knows it already) may know what themselves will do, which then appears, when the temptation draws it out; but neither is to be understood of the temptation here spoken of, viz. of seduction, or drawing into sin. God tempts by giving hard commands, Gen 22:1; by afflicting, as in Job’s case; by letting loose Satan or other wicked instruments to tempt, 1Ki 22:22; by withholding his grace and deserting men, 1Sa 28:15; by presenting occasions which corruption within improves unto sin, and by ordering and governing the evil wills of men, as that a thief should steal out of this flock rather than that, that Nebuchadnezzar should come against Jerusalem rather than Rabbah, Eze 21:21,22. But God doth not tempt by commanding, suggesting, soliciting, or persuading to sin.