© “He Himself does not tempt anyone” However, the Bible records several of God’s tests: Abraham, Gen. 22:1; Israel, Deut, 8:2; Jesus, Matt. 4:1; and believers, Matt. 6:13. This statement seems to be caught up in the differing connotations between the terms “tempt” (peirazō, cf. 1:13), and “test” (dokimazō, cf. 1:3, 12). God does not tempt so as to destroy, but He does test so as to strengthen. 1:14 “when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust” These two verbs were used of trapping and luring
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