A Warning & A Way!
"No temptation has overtaken you except such
as is common to man; but God is faithful, who
will not allow you to be tempted beyond what
you are able,
but with the temptation will also
make the way of escape, that you may be
able to bear it."
1 Corinthians 10: 13
The Apostle Paul warned the Corinthians
about the danger of yielding to temptation.
The desert was littered with the bodies of
Israelites who ignored God’s warnings
(1 Corinthians 10:5).
On their trek to the Promised Land, the
Hebrews engaged in immorality, idolatry, and
grumbling. Many were judged. These examples
of Israel’s past “were written for our admonition”
as warnings about the dangers of temptation
(1 Corinthians 10:11).
“Let him who thinks he stands take heed
lest he fall,” Paul warned (verse 12). But
with that warning came a way of escape.
Paul wrote that God will never allow us to be
tempted beyond what
we're able to bear—that
He always provides a “way of escape.” But we
must take the way God provides.
First Corinthians 10:13 is not only a verse of
comfort but also a verse of warning. Failure
to resist temptation in the strength of Christ is
to ignore God’s warning about consequences
of sin.
"The best of saints may be
tempted to the worst of
sins."
Matthew Henry
