Mark 14:38
Watch ye and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
In Context
39And again he went away, and prayed, speaking the same sentence.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not at what hour your Master cometh.
Matthew 26:41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak.
Luke 21:36Watch therefore, praying at every proper opportunity, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are ready to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 22:46And he said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise up, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
1 Corinthians 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be manful, be strong.
Philippians 2:12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always been obedient, not only during my presence with you, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own salvation.
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:33-43
The Agony in the Garden. 32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible… Read the whole commentary →