Oh that thou wouldest keep me from evil.¹

Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.²  The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.³

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.⁴

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.⁵  I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.⁶  He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.⁷

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.⁸  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.⁹

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¹1Ch 4:10; ²Luk 22:46; ³Mat 26:41; ⁴Pro 30:7-9; ⁵Psa 121:7; ⁶Jer 15:21; ⁷1Jo 5:18; ⁸Rev 3:10; ⁹2Pe 2:9; (From Bagster’s Daily Light KJV)