SERIES:  Big BUTs:  Temptation

  • “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, BUT with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)
  • “Do not be overcome with evil, BUT overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:21)
  • “Be of sober spirit.  Be on the alert.  Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.  BUT resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering [temptations, trials, tribulations] are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.” (1 Peter 5:8-9)

[In that first verse we have a small but followed by a BIG BUT!  It’s good that the temptations we all face aren’t unique to us but rather are experienced by all of us (per this third verse) but I’m even more  thankful for the second  ”but” in that verse, i.e., not just that the temptations which confront us are common to all but even more that temptation itself can  be conquered, that God ALWAYS provides the (not “a”) way of escape for us!]

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