Mark 14:38
Good News Translation
And he said to them, "Keep watch, and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

New Revised Standard Version
Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Contemporary English Version
Stay awake and pray that you won't be tested. You want to do what is right, but you are weak."

New American Bible
Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Watch.

Mark 14:34 And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

Matthew 24:42 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Matthew 26:41 Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 22:40,46 And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 3:2,3,10 Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. . . .

The spirit.

Romans 7:18-25 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. . . .

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Context
Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
37And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? 38Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 39And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:41
Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 14:37
And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour?

Mark 14:39
And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.

Mark 14:37
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