Temptation · Torrey

God cannot be the subject of Jas 1:13
Does not come from God Jas 1:13
COMES FROM
Lusts Jas 1:14
Covetousness Pr 28:20; 1Ti 6:9,10
The devil is the author of 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:1; Joh 13:2; 1Th 3:5
Evil associates, the instruments of Pr 1:10; 7:6; 16:29
OFTEN ARISES THROUGH
Poverty Pr 30:9; Mt 4:2,3
Prosperity Pr 30:9; Mt 4:8
Worldly glory Nu 22:17; Da 4:30; 5:2; Mt 4:8
To distrust of God's providence Mt 4:3
To presumption Mt 4:6
To worshipping the god of this world Mt 4:9
Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word Mt 4:6
PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF
Faith 1Pe 1:7; Jas 1:2,3
Disinterestedness Job 1:9-12
Always conformable to the nature of man 1Co 10:13
Often ends in sin and perdition 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:15
CHRIST
Endured, from the devil Mr 1:13
Endured, from the wicked Mt 16:1; 22:18; Lu 10:25
Resisted by the word of God Mt 4:4,7,10
Overcame Mt 4:11
Sympathises with those under Heb 4:15
Is able to help those under Heb 2:18
Intercedes for his people under Lu 22:31,32; Joh 17:15
God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear 1Co 10:13
God will make a way for saints to escape out of 1Co 10:13
God enables the saints to bear 1Co 10:13
God knows how to deliver saints out of 2Pe 2:9
Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of Re 3:10
Saints may be in heaviness through 1Pe 1:6
SAINTS SHOULD
Resist, in faith Eph 6:16; 1Pe 5:9
Watch against Mt 26:41; 1Pe 5:8
Pray to be kept from Mt 6:13; 26:41
Not to occasion, to others Ro 14:13
Restore those overcome by Ga 6:1
Avoid the way of Pr 4:14,15
The devil will renew Lu 4:13
Has strength through the weakness of the flesh Mt 26:41
Mere professors fall away in time of Lu 8:13
Blessedness of those who meet and overcome Jas 1:2-4,12
Exemplified
Eve Ge 3:1,4,5
Joseph Ge 39:7
Balaam Nu 22:17
Achan Jos 7:21
David 2Sa 11:2
Jeroboam 1Ki 15:30
Peter Mr 14:67-71
Paul 2Co 12:7; Ga 4:14

The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.