Joseph is Put in Prison
Genesis 39:13-23
Key Verse: 39:23
Date: Jan. 8, 2025
Question
For what do we pray in the sixth request?
Answer
In the sixth request (And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one) we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin or support and deliver us when we are tempted.
Reference Passages
1
Psalm 19:13
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
and innocent of great transgression.
Matthew 26:41
41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
John 17:15
15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
2
Luke 22:31-32
31 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
Hebrews 2:18