Matthew 4:7
Jesus said to him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Webster Bible
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 said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why chide you with me? why do ye tempt the LORD?
Numbers 14:22Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Psalms 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.
Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked 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; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God 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 →