Portrait of Charles H. Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon on Sin & Temptation

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful.
— 1 Corinthians 10:13

13 quotations from Charles H. Spurgeon on Sin & Temptation, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.

All of Grace 4

  1. Our Lord Jesus did not die for imaginary sins, but His heart's blood was spilt to wash out deep crimson stains, which nothing else can remove.
  2. Jesus Christ, made sin for me, was what I saw, and that sight gave me rest.
  3. Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins.
  4. Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.

Around the Wicket Gate 1

  1. Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ's reconciliation to the sore of our sin.

Gleanings Among the Sheaves 2

  1. Not one sin is to be spared, but against the whole is to be proclaimed an utter and entire war of extermination.
  2. Do you think that we are forever to be the drudges and the slaves of sin, sighing for freedom, and yet never able to escape from its bondage?

Talks to the Farmer 2

  1. God will not lead you into temptation, but you may lead yourself.
  2. Not only does God bear with sin, but in the person of his Son, he bore and removed it.

Till He Come 4

  1. The Lord Jesus was unto us a covering for sin, and so a covert from wrath.
  2. Christ Jesus is the only escape for a sinner pursued by the fiery wrath of God, and we would have the believer remember this.
  3. Jesus identified Himself with His people, and therefore their sin was laid upon Him, and the sword of the Lord awoke against Him.
  4. Our Lord Jesus did not handle sin with the golden tongs, but He bore it on His own shoulders.