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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 10 · verse 13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.1 Corinthians 10:13 · King James Version
What 1 Corinthians 10:13 means
Three things are said here. What you're facing isn't unique, it's such as is common to man. God is faithful, and he won't let it run past what you can bear. And there is always a way to escape, which makes the honest question in the moment whether you're looking for it.
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1 Corinthians 10:13 in context
11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
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Commentary
Cross references
- 2 Peter 2:9
- 2 Timothy 4:18
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
- 1 Peter 5:8-9
- Hebrews 12:4
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
- Romans 8:28-39
- 2 Corinthians 12:8-10
Key words (Strong's)
- temptationpeirasmosan experiment, attempt, trial, proving, trial, proving the trial made of you by my bodily…G3986 →
- faithfulpistostrusty, faithful, of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business…G4103 →
- temptedpeirazōto try whether a thing can be done, to attempt, endeavour, to try, make trial of, test…G3985 →
- suffereaōto allow, permit, let, to allow one to do as he wishes, not to restrain, to let alone, to…G1439 →
- escapeekbasisan egress, way out, exit, applied figuratively to the way of escape from temptation, the…G1545 →
- takenlambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
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The apostle, having recited their privileges, proceeds here to an account of their faults and punishments, their sins and plagues, which are left upon record for an example to us, a warning against the like sins, if we would escape the like punishments. We must not do as they did, lest we suffer as they suffered. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-14