Matthew 4:7
Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Revised Version 1895
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 strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Numbers 14:22because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Psalms 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;
Psalms 106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Malachi 3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.
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 →