Matthew 26:41 KJV
Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation:
the spirit indeed [is] willing,
but the flesh [is] weak.
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Other translations
New International Version
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
New Living Translation
Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!”
English Standard Version
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Berean Study Bible
“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Berean Literal Bible
Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation. For the spirit [is] willing, but the flesh weak.”
New King James Version
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.”
New American Standard Bible
Keep watching and praying, so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
NASB 1995
NASB 1977
“Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Amplified Bible
Keep [actively] watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
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Watch and pray.
The first word is eminently characteristic of our Lord’s teaching at this period (Matthew 24:42; Matthew 25:13).
▪︎ It became the watchword of the early disciples (1Corinthians 16:13; Colossians 4:2; 1Thessalonians 5:6; 1Peter 5:8).
▪︎ It left its mark in the history of Christendom in the new names of Gregory, and Vigilius, or Vigilantius, “the watcher.”
That ye enter not into temptation
i.e., as in the Lord’s Prayer, to which our Lord manifestly recalls the minds of the disciples — the trial of coming danger and persecution.
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