1 Corinthians 10:13 (BSB)

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

From 1 Corinthians 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:13

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10:13: 13. No temptation has taken you. “Tentation ne vous a point saisis, ou surprins;” — “No temptation has taken, or overtaken you.” Let others take their own way of interpreting this. For my part, I am of opinion that it was intended for their consolation, lest on hearing of such appalling instances of the wrath of God, as he had previously related, they should feel discouraged, being overpowered with alarm.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:6-14: The apostle, having recited their privileges, proceeds here to an account of their faults and punishments, their sins and plagues, which are left upon record for an example to us, a warning against the like sins, if we would escape the like punishments. We must not do as they did, lest we suffer as they suffered. I. Several of their sins are specified as cautions to us; as, 1.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Corinthians 10:13: There hath no temptation taken you,.... Some, indeed, understand these words by way of reproof, that whereas their trials and exercises which had attended them were very light ones, and comparatively trivial; and yet they had given way to these temptations, and had sunk under them, and fallen by them, for which they were greatly to be blamed; or as threatening them with something more...
  • Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Corinthians 10:13: Verse 13. There hath no temptation taken you. What temptation the apostle refers to here is not quite certain. It is probable, however, that he refers to such as would, in their circumstances, have a tendency to induce them to forsake their allegiance to their Lord, and to lead them into idolatry and sin.