Matthew 4:7

Again Jesus said to him, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God, [or Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God], (or Thou shalt not test the Lord thy God).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

In Context

6and said to him, If thou art God’s Son, send thee adown, [or If thou art the Son of God, send thee down]; for it is written, That to his angels he commanded of thee, and they shall take thee in (their) hands, lest peradventure thou hurt thy foot at a stone.

8Again the fiend [or the devil] took him [up] into a full high hill, and showed to him all the realms of the world, and the joy [or the glory] of them; (And the Devil took him up onto a very high hill, or onto a mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;)

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2Which people chided against Moses, and said, Give water to us, that we drink. To whom Moses answered, What chide ye against me, and why tempt ye the Lord? (And the people complained to Moses, and said, Give us some water to drink. To whom Moses answered, Why do ye complain to me, and why do ye tempt the Lord?)

Numbers 14:22nevertheless all [the] men that saw my majesty, and my signs, ( and wonders), which I did in Egypt and (here) in the wilderness, and [have] tempted me now by ten times, and obeyed not to my voice,

Psalms 78:18And they tempted God in their hearts; that they asked meats to their lives. (And they tempted God in their hearts; by demanding food for their hunger.)

Psalms 78:56And they tempted, and wrathed the high God; and they kept not his witnessings. (And still they tempted, and angered, the Most High God; and they did not obey his teachings, or his commands.)

Psalms 106:14And they coveted covetousness in desert (or And they were utterly insatiable in the wilderness); and tempted God in a place without water.

Malachi 3:15Therefore now we say proud men [be] blessed; for they be builded doing wickedness, and they tempted God, and be made safe. (And so now we say that proud people be blessed; for they be built up, or become prosperous, doing wickedness, and they tempted God, and came to no harm.)

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 →

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