Stories About Temptation In The Bible Novels & Stories

Yet, I wasn’t at ease. Allen had just cheated Juliet. My heart was pounding, I needed to get away from him or I would be tempted to suck his lips again. “This is wrong. We can’t do this to Juliet.” I stood up and brushed my hands on getting rid of the wrinkles on my dress. I had been so stupid to think Allen could be into me. I had almost forgotten who I was. Sure I might have feelings for him but that was never an excuse to sin, my grandma used to say, “There is no excuse for sinning.”

I squeezed my eyes shut, pressing the worn cover of the book harder against my ribs. "Cast out these evil thoughts," I prayed aloud, my breath hitching as I rocked back and forth on the floor. "Oh Lord. Fill my heart with strength so I don't look at him again. Deliver me from this temptation. Do not let me be corrupted. Please, just give me the strength to survive this temptation and overcome this weakness."

I never look back, but his offer was very enticing the kind of enticing that you would not let go. “ do not keep me waiting then I know you want to. I know you want me to let you search yourself. Let me show you how.,” he whispers through the thick wooden barricades. “ let me show you how lonely you’ve been let me take away the loneliness you feel just let me,” he whispers one more. If temptation is what they teaches then this is the exact temptation I had made the exact one written in the Bible, the exact one that you cannot walk away from.

But that wasn’t all, he wore glasses, and I was a sucker for nerds. I had wanted Father Liam for five years, like desperately so. That was five years of sitting in this same pew, watching him baptise babies, comfort widows, quote scripture with that raging fire in his eyes which made my pussy so wet that I wanted to baptise him in it. This Sunday he preached about temptation, he loved that, and he always glanced at me at least twice during that sermon. “James 1:14,” he said, his voice reaching every corner. I always wondered if his hands could reach everywhere else too. “But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.”

Cesare made one last desperate gamble. He colluded with Mylanese drug lords and meticulously planned an ambush against Wade. He believed that he could replace Wade and seize total control of Cecile if he could take him out. He intended to use that as leverage to force me into submission, to break me and claim me as his own. What he never imagined was that the man he trusted most at his side–who he believed was fiercely loyal, the one he thought would shield him from bullets–was the very person I had saved in my past life. He was also the mole Wade had planted in Cesare's circle years ago.

fucking my fist to visions of her on her knees, begging for my absolution in ways the Bible never intended. By the fourth week, the temptation festered like an open wound. The city outside buzzed with summer heat, the air thick and oppressive, mirroring the storm building inside me. I prepared for her arrival with dread and anticipation, my sermons that Sunday laced with unintended fervor about the snares of lust. 'The devil prowls like a lion,' I thundered from the pulpit, but my flock saw only piety. They didn't know the lion was clawing at my own soul.

"To the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer and the wider community, Following the series of recent, deeply troubling public events involving a former member of our flock, we are compelled to speak the word of biblical truth. The world does celebrate ambition and power. But when power is seized by the profanation of holy covenants, when God-established institutions of family and marriage are brought low for selfish ends, it is not success that we behold, but a moral outrage. The story of Absalom is a warning in plain terms. It teaches us that lust for power can corrupt the heart so profoundly that it leads to acts both against human decency and against divine law. We have sat around with heart

“Not just the consequence meted out by an aware, awake society built on the sometimes sturdy pillars of law and order, but the true, inescapable, sometimes damning consequences of a Holy Father who sees all and, from that, will bring balance to one’s eternal soul, righting wrongs, if need be, in often mysterious, unavoidable ways. “Do you understand?” Her chair squeaked as she leaned forward, her elbows on the desk bracketing his now infamous file. “To allow you to walk back into the lion’s den of potential temptation, the apparently unavoidable sin of young, innocent flesh, is a test. Should you fail, there will be consequences.” Her fingers laced into boney, pale fists. “Not just from our

He's trying hard not to open his mouth because the moment Khana's tongue enters, there's no assurance he can silence his desire to kiss back. However, she is more tempting than he could imagine. Her hands slowly crawled to his chest which brought a shiver to his whole being. Meanwhile, Khana is earnestly praying that the guy he is kissing will fall into her antics. She wished he'd kiss back. She's doing her best to tempt the priest, shamelessly committing a sin. She is crazy enough to go against the world just to have the love of her life. She can feel loud drums lying in Henry's chest. He is breathing hard while trying to resist the temptation, but he is just a human who got preyed on by ea

The door slid closed, leaving us both in a tensed silence. I took a spot by the corner, my heart pounding so loudly that I could hear it through my ears. He stood just inches besides me, and from the side of my eye, he faced forward with an unreadable expression. God please, let us stay this way. I shut my eyes and prayed, but clearly the heavens wasn't listening. At that moment, he tapped on the hold button, and the elevator came to a stop. He turned, taking slow, measured steps toward me. I wanted to shrink, to disappear, but I stuck between the cold steel and this hot ball of temptation.