12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: …
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam , bespeak him to be the seed of the woman ; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent’s head , baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conq…
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