1 Corinthians 10:13 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

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ASV

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

There hath no temptation taken you - What temptation the apostle refers to here is not quite certain. It is probable, however, that he refers to such as would, in their circumstances, have a tendency to induce them to forsake their allegiance to their Lord, and to lead them into idolatry and sin. These might be either open persecutions, or afflictions on account of their religion; or they might be the various allurements which were spread around them from the prevalence of idolatry.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Common to man - Or, as the Greek word imports, proportioned to human strength. God is faithful - In giving the help which he hath promised. And he will with the temptation - Provide for your deliverance.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2603: “Comfort for the Tempted” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1899)

THE children of God are all subject to temptation—some of them are tempted more than others, but I an persuaded that there is not one, except those who are too young to be conscious of evil, who will enter Heaven without having endured some temptation. If anyone could have escaped, surely it would have been "the First-Born among many brethren," but you will remember how He was led of the Spirit, straight from the waters of His Baptism, into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

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Original language & word study

30 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
πειρασμὸς	peirasmos	Temptation	G3986 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
εἴληφεν	eilēphen	has seized	G2983 →
εἰ	ei	only	G1487 →
μὴ	mē	except	G3361 →
ἀνθρώπινος·	anthrōpinos	what is common to man;	G442 →
πιστὸς	pistos	faithful	G4103 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεός,	theos	[is] God,	G2316 →
ὃς	hos	who	G3739 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐάσει	easei	will allow	G1439 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
πειρασθῆναι	peirasthēnai	to be tempted	G3985 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	beyond	G5228 →
ὃ	ho	what	G3739 →
δύνασθε,	dunasthe	you are able,	G1410 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
ποιήσει	poiēsei	will provide	G4160 →
σὺν	sun	with	G4862 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
πειρασμῷ	peirasmō	temptation	G3986 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἔκβασιν	ekbasin	escape	G1545 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
δύνασθαι	dunasthai	to be able	G1410 →
ὑπενεγκεῖν.¶	hupenegkein	to endure [it].	G5297 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
leads to
- Psalms 121:7
  The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
  But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Jude 1:24–25
  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
Through
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:18
  And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
  The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
- 1 Corinthians 1:9
  God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- John 17:15
  I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
Through
2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
leads to
- Psalms 34:15–19
  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

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