25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

And I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart have I willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, offer willingly to thee.

Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jehovah is in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.

What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?

And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?

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

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?

Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

For the trial is made; and what if even the contemning sceptre shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

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 answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.