| Tempted |
| "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And ifI do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myselft who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but cannot carry it out." -Romans 7:15-18 "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." -James 1:2-3 "If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." -James 1:26 "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him." -1 John 5:18 |