Matthew 26:41

Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

In Context

40Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!

42Again a second time He went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is impossible for this cup to pass without my drinking it, Thy will be done."

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Cross References

Matthew 6:13and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.'

Matthew 25:13"Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:37-47

The Agony in the Garden. 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless… Read the whole commentary →

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