<p>1:13 <i>Let no one say when he is tempted: I am tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted with evil, and He tempts no one</i>- In those moments of spiritual temptation it is easy to recognize that the situation creating the temptation has clearly been arranged by God, and therefore to get bitter against Him. Now the earlier definition of 'temptation' as the spiritual temptation to sin which arises within us becomes vital. God may put the physical temptation in our way- e.g. the serpent in Eden, God tempting Abraham in Gen. 22:1- but our evil desires or &quot;lusts&quot; in our minds (v.14) are alone responsible for our sinning, due to wrongly responding to these physical temptations. Thus God could therefore examine the inner thought process of David's mind to reveal whether he was giving way to the spiritual temptations that would be developed by the physical trials: &quot;Examine me, O Lord, and prove (same word as &quot;tempt&quot; in Gen. 22:1) me; try my reins and my heart&quot; (Ps. 26:2). Thus &quot;Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away&quot; (v.14).</p>