Psalms 78:18

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’ ”

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

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.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.