7 verses prove God can lead into temptation.

7 verses prove God can lead into temptation.

By Makko Musagara

7 verses prove God can lead into temptation.

Luke 11:4 

‘Forgive us our sins,
    for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.^[a]
And lead us not into temptation.^[b]’”

Job 1:12

‘The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.’

Job 2:6

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”

Genesis 2:16-17 

¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 18:21

^“that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

1 Kings 22:19-23 

¹⁹ Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’

“One suggested this, and another that. ²¹ Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’

²² “‘By what means?’ the Lord asked.

“‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said.

“‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the Lord. ‘Go and do it.’

²³ “So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

2 Samuel 11:2 

^“One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful”