Matthew 4:7
Iesus saide vnto him, It is written againe, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and sayde, Giue vs water that we may drinke. And Moses sayde vnto them, Why contende yee with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
Numbers 14:22For all those men which haue seene my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wildernes, and haue tempted me this ten times, and haue not obeyed my voyce,
Psalms 78:18And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
Psalms 106:14But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.
Malachi 3:15Therefore wee count the proude blessed: euen they that worke wickednesse, are set vp, and they that tempt God, yea, they are deliuered.
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 →