Temptation Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.How did Jesus answer every temptation of Satan?
- A. With miracles
- B. It is written — with Scripture ✓
- C. With silence
- D. With arguments
Answer: It is written — with Scripture
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God… It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Q2.What did Satan tempt Jesus to do first?
- A. Turn stones into bread ✓
- B. Cast himself down from the temple
- C. Worship him
- D. Turn water into wine
Answer: Turn stones into bread
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Q3.What does James 1:13 say about God and temptation?
- A. God tempts everyone
- B. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ✓
- C. Temptation comes from God to test us
- D. God enjoys tempting people
Answer: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
Q4.Where does James say temptation comes from?
- A. From God
- B. Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed ✓
- C. From the devil only
- D. From other people
Answer: Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Q5.What does 1 Corinthians 10:13 say God will not allow?
- A. Any temptation to come
- B. You to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape ✓
- C. You to sin
- D. Any suffering
Answer: You to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Q6.What did Jesus tell the disciples to watch and pray against?
- A. Laziness
- B. Temptation — the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak ✓
- C. Hunger
- D. Sleepiness
Answer: Temptation — the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Q7.What did the serpent say to Eve?
- A. Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ✓
- B. God wants you to be happy
- C. The fruit is poisonous
- D. Do not touch the tree
Answer: Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Q8.What does Hebrews 2:18 say about Jesus being tempted?
- A. He was never tempted
- B. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted ✓
- C. He tempted others
- D. He avoided all temptation
Answer: For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Q9.What did Jesus say Satan is?
- A. A liar and the father of it ✓
- B. A helper
- C. An angel of light only
- D. A myth
Answer: A liar and the father of it
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Q10.How did Jesus overcome the devil's temptation to worship him?
- A. He debated philosophy
- B. Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve ✓
- C. He performed a miracle
- D. He called angels
Answer: Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.