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Jesus declined the Third Temptation, observing that one should worship God alone.  ''Many evil deeds are motivated by a desire for power over the world, or obsession with by it''.
 
Jesus declined the Third Temptation, observing that one should worship God alone.  ''Many evil deeds are motivated by a desire for power over the world, or obsession with by it''.
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One commentator summarized these three temptations as "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life."<ref>https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/in-the-world.html</ref>
 
==in Literature==
 
==in Literature==
 
There are many references to the Three Temptations of Christ in great literature.  [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] writes in ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
 
There are many references to the Three Temptations of Christ in great literature.  [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] writes in ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
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