Matthew 26:41

In 9 translations

BSB

“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

KJV

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

WEB

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

ASV

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

LSV

Watch, and pray, that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.”

YLT

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

γρηγορεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε, ἵνα μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς πειρασμόν· τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής.

RP2018

Γρηγορεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε, ἵνα μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς πειρασμόν. Τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον, ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής.

TR-Boyd

Γρηγορεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε, ἵνα μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς πειρασμόν. Τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον, ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής.

SCR1894

γρηγορειτε και προσευχεσθε ινα μη εισελθητε εις πειρασμον το μεν πνευμα προθυμον η δε σαρξ ασθενης

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• Luke 22:46“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
• Mark 14:38Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
• Ephesians 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
• Galatians 5:16–17So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so…
• Revelation 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• 1 Corinthians 16:13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
• 1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13No 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…
• Romans 7:18–25I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to…
• Matthew 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Mark 13:33–37Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come. It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper…
• 2 Peter 2:9if 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.
• Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
• Revelation 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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