Matthew 26:41
Good News Translation
Keep watch and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

New Revised Standard Version
Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Contemporary English Version
Stay awake and pray that you won't be tested. You want to do what is right, but you are weak."

New American Bible
Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Watch.

Matthew 24:42 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33-37 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. . . .

Mark 14:38 Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 22:40,46 And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Ephesians 6:18 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

enter.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Proverbs 4:14,15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. . . .

Luke 8:13 Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.

1 Corinthians 10:13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.

the spirit.

Psalm 119:4,5,24,25,32,35-37,115,117,1 Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. . . .

Isaiah 26:8,9 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. . . .

Romans 7:18-25 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. . . .

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

Galatians 5:16,17,24 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. . . .

Philippians 3:12-14 Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus. . . .

Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
40And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me? 41Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:38
Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me.

Mark 14:38
Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Matthew 26:40
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