12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[a](A)

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  1. Luke 4:12 Deut. 6:16

16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test(A) as you did at Massah.

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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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    do not harden your hearts(A)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(B)

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

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Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:7 Deut. 6:16

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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We should not test Christ,[a](A) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.(B)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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15 But now we call the arrogant(A) blessed. Certainly evildoers(B) prosper,(C) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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where your ancestors tested(A) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

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14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

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14 In the desert(A) they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness(B) they put God to the test.(C)

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