Do Not Yield to Temptation!
Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for others to be able to choose between a path that leads to destruction and the paths of the righteous. In Jesus’s name, amen.
There is a great contrast between a person tempted by a forbidden woman, and a person who does yield to temptation.
Proverbs 2:16-22 (ESV) clarifies the distinction between the two.
“So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,
who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;
none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.”
Don’t get confused. There is no gray area. If a person yields to temptation, they are in trouble.
Keep to the paths of the righteous and thrive.
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