New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Matthew 26:41
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“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
BSB text & permissions
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
KJV text & permissions
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Watch and pray so that you⁺ might not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh weak.”
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Matthew 26
39 Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
40 Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
41 “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
42 A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
43 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
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