Does God tempt or test us?
Does God tempt us? Or test us? What’s the difference? The distinction between testing and tempting concerns the motives of the one doing the testing.
35 Matthew 6:13 The Lord’s Prayer: Temptation
This last request is not to avoid the choice posed by temptation. This request is to be preserved through the choice. Father, do not let me fall into temptation to my doom.
trial, periasmos, G3986
Tools and resources you need to do a word study on the Greek noun for trial or temptation: peirasmos
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Krisan Marotta is a Bible teacher and host of Wednesday in the Word, the podcast about what the Bible means and how we know.