Matthew 4:10

But Jesus said to him, “ No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! It is written in the Scriptures, ‘It is the Lord your God whom you (pl) must worship, and you (pl) must serve only him!’”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

In Context

9And then he said to him, “I will let you rule all these nations and give you the magnificent things in them if you bow down and worship me.”

11Then the devil went away, and right away, angels came to Jesus and took care of him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:13“You must revere Yahweh our God, and you must serve only him and say that he should [MTY] punish you if you do not do what you have promised.

Joshua 24:14Then Joshua said to the people, “ Because of all that Yahweh has done for you, revere him, and serve/worship him very faithfully. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped on the east/other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve only Yahweh.

1 Chronicles 21:1Satan decided to cause the Israeli people to have trouble. So he incited David to find out how many men in Israel were able to be in the army.

Job 1:12Yahweh replied to Satan, “◄All right/Okay►, I will permit you to take away everything that he has. But do not harm him.” Then Satan left, and he prepared to cause many disastrous things to happen to Job.

Psalms 109:6They said, “Appoint a wicked judge who will judge him, and bring in one of his enemies who will stand up and accuse him.

Matthew 16:23Then Jesus turned to look at Peter, and he said to him, “Stop talking to me like that [MTY]! Stop saying what Satan [MET] would say, and stop trying to prevent from happening what God has planned! You are a hindrance to me, because you are not thinking like God thinks. Instead, you are thinking like people think!”

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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