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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
In the King James Version
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.
What was happening around this
Paul addresses the Corinthians, using Israel’s wilderness failures as examples in 10:1–11; the immediate text tells those who think they stand to take care (v. 12). Arminta Fox identifies the chapter’s governing warning as idolatry and notes that v. 14 explicitly resumes it: “flee from idolatry.” Thus v. 13 is embedded between warnings drawn from Israel and the instruction about idolatry, not presented as a separate maxim.
Source: Fox, “Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:1–13,” Working Preacher
The verses on either side
- Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
- Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
- No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
- The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
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