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Matthew 4:7

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

KJV

ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, πάλιν γέγραπται, οὐκ ἐκπειράσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου.

Greek NT

Ait illi Jesus : Rursum scriptum est : Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum.

Vulgate

Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.

ASV

Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πάλιν
palin
adverb · 141×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
φημί
phemi
verb · 68×
ἐκπειράζω
ekpeirazo
verb · 6×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Deut 6:16 · exact_quote
    "Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."
    Jesus quotes Deuteronomy: you shall not tempt the Lord

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§394Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
§2849Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "cu…
The true Lord and the one God is declared by the law, and manifested by Christ His Son in the Gospel; whom alone we should adore, and from Him we must look for all good things, not from Satan. 1. Thus then does the Lord plainly show that it was the true Lord and the one God who had been set forth by the law; for Him whom the law proclaimed as God, the same did Christ point out …
2. Having then found Him in the wilderness, and in a pathless wilderness (for that the wilderness was such, Mark has declared, saying, that He was with the wild beasts Mark 1:13), behold with how much craft he draws near, and wickedness; and for what sort of opportunity he watches. For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct you how great a good fastin…
Q. What is God's will for you in the sixth commandment? A. I am not to belittle, insult, hate, or kill my neighbor — not by my thoughts, my words, my look or gesture, and certainly not by actual deeds — and I am not to be party to this in others; rather, I am to put away all desire for revenge. I am not to harm or recklessly endanger myself either. Prevention of murder is also …

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:9 — Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
  • Acts 5:9 — Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
  • Acts 15:10 — Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Deut 6:16 — Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
  • Deut 6:16 — Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
  • Eph 6:17 — And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
  • Exod 17:2 — Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
  • Exod 17:2 — Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
  • Exod 17:7 — And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
  • Heb 3:9 — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
  • Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Luke 4:12 — And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
  • Mal 3:15 — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
  • Matt 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
  • Matt 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
  • Matt 4:10 — Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
  • Num 14:22 — Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
  • Ps 17:4 — Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
  • Ps 78:18 — And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
  • Ps 78:41 — Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 78:56 — Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
  • Ps 95:9 — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
  • Ps 106:14 — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.