Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

In Context

6And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

8Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

Numbers 14:22But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Psalms 78:18And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

Psalms 106:14And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Malachi 3:15Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12

The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →

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