1 Corinthians 10:13
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.
Study Note
Study Note
The promise that 'God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear' comes in the context of Paul's warning from Israel's wilderness failures (verses 1-12). The word 'temptation' (peirasmos) in Greek covers both external testing and internal solicitation to sin; the verse applies to both. The assurance that God 'will also provide a way out' does not promise immunity from temptation but a path through it — 'so that you can endure it.' The verse is often pastorally misapplied as a promise that God never allows unbearable suffering, but Paul's context is specifically moral testing and the possibility of apostasy, not physical or emotional suffering.
Other Translations
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
Cross References
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