25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off

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

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case.

LORD is in his holy temple. LORD's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men.

LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them, for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

But thou, O LORD, know me. Thou see me, and try my heart toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For there is a trial, and what if even the rod that scorns shall be no more? says lord LORD.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

But, O LORD of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my cause.