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Matthew 4:7
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Matthew 4:7
7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
7Iesus said vnto him, It is written againe, *Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- Deu. 6.16.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 4:7
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To try, test, put to the test.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study16¶ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
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Open the full verse study9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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Open the full verse study41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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Open the full verse study18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
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Open the full verse study9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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Open the full verse study2Wherefore 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?
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Open the full verse study7And 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?
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Open the full verse study9Then 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.
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Open the full verse study14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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Open the full verse study56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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Open the full verse study22Because 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;
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Open the full verse study9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Open the full verse study15And 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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Open the full verse study20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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Open the full verse study10Then 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.
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Open the full verse study4But 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.
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Open the full verse study16And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
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Open the full verse study42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
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Open the full verse study31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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