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  • Matthew 26:41
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 41 Keep on the watch+ and pray continually,+ so that you may not enter into temptation.+ The spirit, of course, is eager,* but the flesh is weak.”+

  • Matthew 26:41
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 41 γρηγορεῖτε Be YOU staying awake καὶ and προσεύχεσθε, be you praying, ἵνα in order that μὴ not εἰσέλθητε you might enter εἰς into πειρασμόν· temptation; τὸ the μὲν indeed πνεῦμα spirit πρόθυμον eager ἡ the δὲ but σὰρξ flesh ἀσθενής. weak.

  • Matthew 26:41
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 41 Keep on the watch+ and pray+ continually, that YOU may not enter into temptation.+ The spirit, of course, is eager, but the flesh is weak.”+

  • Matthew 26:41
    The Bible in Living English
    • 41* Keep awake and pray, that you may not fall under temptation: the spirit is enthusiastic but the flesh is weak.”

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

  • Matthew 26:41
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 41 Be watching and praying, that ye may not enter into temptation: The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh weak.

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

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 26:41 w24.07 14; w20.05 18; it-1 841; jy 282; w13 11/15 4-5; w12 2/15 5; kp 24-26; w03 1/1 20; w00 11/15 23; w96 5/15 21; gt chapter 117; w90 10/1 8

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 26:41 w72 527-528, 532; w65 122; w64 561; w61 87; w57 430; w51 502; w44 246

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 26:41

      The Watchtower (Study),

      5/2020, p. 18

      Insight, Volume 1, p. 841

      Jesus—The Way, p. 282

      The Watchtower,

      11/15/2013, pp. 4-5

      2/15/2012, pp. 4-5

      1/1/2003, p. 20

      11/15/2000, p. 23

      5/15/1996, p. 21

      10/1/1990, p. 8

      Watch!, pp. 24-26

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 26
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 26:41

      spirit: Here referring to the impelling force that issues from a person’s figurative heart and causes him to say and do things in a certain way.​—See Glossary.

      flesh: In the Bible, the term is often used to represent man in his imperfect sinful state.

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