25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my mind and my heart.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.

Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.

O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous;
For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts.

But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
And the one who loves violence His soul hates.

I said to myself concerning the sons of men, “God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts.”

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But the Lord tests hearts.

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,

That You examine him every morning
And try him every moment?

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Behold, I will refine them and assay them;
For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

“Will it be well when He examines you?
Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?

But You know me, O Lord;
You see me;
And You examine my heart’s attitude toward You.
Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter
And set them apart for a day of carnage!

“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?” declares the Lord God.

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Yet, O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous,
Who see the mind and the heart;
Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For to You I have set forth my cause.