Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘ You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

English Majority Text (NT)

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 You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 1 ‘ He shall give His angels charge concerning you,’ and, 1 ‘ In their hands they will lift you up, 1 lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

8Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

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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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