Hebrews 2:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.”
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“Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hebrews 2:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
- Matthew 26:37He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
- Luke 22:53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
- John 10:29My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- Philippians 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
- 2 Timothy 1:12For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
- Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- Hebrews 5:2He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is beset by weakness.
- Hebrews 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
- Hebrews 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
- 2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
- Revelation 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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