STRENGTH in Time of Temptation

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation:

for when he is tried ,

he shall receive the crown of life,

which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Let no man say when he is tempted,

I am tempted of God: for God cannot be

tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

But every man is tempted,

when he is draw away of his own lust,

and enticed.

Then when lust hath conceived,

it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished,

bringeth forth death.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

Now these things were our examples,

to the intent we should not lust after evil things,

as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them:

as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink,

and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication,

as some of them commited, 

and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them

also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also  murmured,

and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them 

for ensamples:

and they are written for our admonition,

upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed

lest he fall.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common

to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you 

to be tempted above that ye are able: 

but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,

that ye may be able to bear it.