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Matthew 4:6And said to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
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D. The Temptation of Jesus. Ch. 4:1-13
... This is the temptation to place oneself needlessly in a situation of moral peril
and then to expect to be delivered by ... This is not faith, but presumption. ...
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The Temptation of Jesus
... [1467] Alternately, the temptation to despair, presumption, or the cutting short
of the contest in some decisive manner, must have presented itself to His mind ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the temptation of.htm
Whether Temptation of God is Opposed to the virtue of Religion?
... And though this implicit temptation would seem to arise from presumption or
indiscretion, yet the very fact that a man behaves presumptuously and without due ...
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Perfect Modesty Will Abstain from Whatever Tends to Sin, as Well ...
... Difference Between Trust and Presumption. If Secure Ourselves, We Must Not Put
Temptation in the Way of Others. We Must Love Our Neighbour as Ourself. ...
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The victory
... failed of exciting distrust, he succeeds in leading us to presumption. If he can
cause us to place ourselves unnecessarily in the way of temptation, he knows ...
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The Temptation
... Such presumption disguised as filial trust is the temptation besetting the higher
regions of experience, to which the fumes of animal passions and the less ...
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Explanation of the Lord's Question About his Mother and his ...
... about the nativity, all who reject it as creating a presumption in favour of ... in other
instances silent when anything was done against Him by way of temptation. ...
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The Temptation
... the love of the world, and upon that love of display which leads to presumption. ...
Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. ...
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The Temptation in the Wilderness.
... It was a temptation to shew the powers of the world that he was the Son of God;
that to ... It is presumption of a kind similar to the making of a stone into bread ...
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The University of Arabia.
... Temptation follows the line of exaggeration, misuse, misadjustment, wrong
motive. It pushes trust over into unwarranted presumption. ...
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Resources
Why did Jesus instruct us to pray 'lead us not into temptation' when God states that He does not tempt us? | GotQuestions.orgWhat are the keys to resisting temptation? | GotQuestions.orgHow can I overcome temptation? | GotQuestions.orgTemptation: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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