Matthew 26:41

“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

40Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.

42A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

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Cross References

Psalms 119:4You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.

Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

Psalms 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

Proverbs 4:14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:37-47

The Agony in the Garden. 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless… Read the whole commentary →

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