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1 Corinthians 10:13

哥林多前书 10:13

The Passage

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

In the other language

你们所遇见的试探，无非是人所能受的。神是信实的，必不叫你们受试探过于所能受的；在受试探的时候，总要给你们开一条出路，叫你们能忍受得住。

Theme

A way through

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Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Work pressure rarely arrives as one clean problem; it comes as a stack that never quite empties. This verse does not promise that the stack will disappear. It says that no temptation has taken you except what is common to man, that God is faithful, and that he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able. That first puts down the question, “Why is this happening only to me?” What you are facing is not a special punishment; others have stood in the same place. The pressure is still real, but it has a limit, and the one who sets the limit is faithful. You can stop proving that you can carry it alone: name the heaviest item, ask for help, and tell God plainly that you are not sufficient for this. Which pressure have you been calling manageable, and what would it look like to ask for the way through instead?

Carry thisA faithful God sets the limit on what you face.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Temptation in a relationship often wears something small: an unanswered message, a need that goes unnoticed, a silence neither of you will break first. This verse does not tell you how to make the other person change. It sets two things side by side: what is common to man, and the faithfulness of God. It suggests that trying to hold the relationship together by sheer patience and effort will eventually run out. Being tempted is not proof that you are less spiritual than you thought; it is proof that you need a way out like everyone else. That way is not a higher standard but a deeper reliance, so that his faithfulness, rather than your fear, becomes the ground for an honest word, a repaired apology, or a pause before you withdraw. Where are you trying to love someone on your own strength, and what would change if you asked for help before you spoke?

Carry thisLove does not have to be held up by your own strength.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Some loads stay in your hands because you believe that if you put them down, no one else will pick them up. Just before this verse, Paul warns the one who thinks he stands to be careful, and looks back at a generation that fell in the wilderness; only then does he speak of a faithful God who limits the trial and makes a way out. The verse does not tell you which job to leave or which relationship to end. It asks you to release a deeper support: the belief that you are the only person who can hold the situation together. The way out is often not the removal of every difficulty but God himself becoming your help within it, sometimes through another person's hand, a timely word, or the humbling act of asking. Letting go is not abandoning responsibility; it is refusing to make “without me, this falls apart” the identity you must protect. What are you holding most tightly right now, and is it the task itself or the image of being the one who never fails?

Carry thisThe way out is often God himself, not an easier road.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

You cannot settle down in the middle of pressure, often because your mind keeps running the numbers: what happens next, what happens if the worst comes. This verse offers no technique for relaxing. It puts what is common to man next to the faithfulness of God. It invites you to stop rehearsing alone and to admit that the trial is real but not boundless, because a way has already been made inside it. Stillness here is not thinking your way to peace; it is turning toward the One who is faithful while the problem is still unresolved. You can say the hardest thing without tidying your feelings first, and then stay quiet for a minute, letting “a very present help” land. What urgent thing could you set down for a moment today, to admit that God is still there?

Carry thisStillness rests on his presence, not on a solved problem.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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1 Corinthians 10 — in context

7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

8Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

10Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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