Matthew 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Matthew 4:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted, and so has his heel bruised; but the serpent is quite baffled in his temptations, and so has his head broken; and our Lord Jesus comes off a Conqueror, and so secures not onl…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. Jesus said unto him, It is written again--(De 6:16), as if he should say, “True, it is so written, and on that promise I implicitly rely; but in using it there is another Scripture which must not be forgotten.” Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God--“Preservation in danger is divinely pledged: shall I then create danger, either to put the promised security skeptically to the proof, or wantonly…