25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

Test me, Lord, and try me;
examine my heart and mind.

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.

I, Yahweh, examine the mind,
I test the heart
to give to each according to his way,
according to what his actions deserve.

I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous.
The One who examines the thoughts and emotions
is a righteous God.

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

But, Lord of Hosts, who judges righteously,
who tests heart and mind,
let me see Your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to You.

The Lord is in His holy temple;
the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes watch; He examines everyone.

The Lord examines the righteous and the wicked.
He hates the lover of violence.

I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

For You, God, tested us;
You refined us as silver is refined.

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and the Lord is the tester of hearts.

What is man, that You think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him?

You inspect him every morning,
and put him to the test every moment.

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

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

I am about to refine them and test them,
for what else can I do
because of My dear people?

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.
You test whether my heart is with You.
Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter
and set them apart for the day of killing.

Yet He knows the way I have taken;
when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Surely it will be a trial!
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
The scepter will not continue.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.

I will put this third through the fire;
I will 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: Yahweh is our God.”

each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Lord of Hosts, testing the righteous
and seeing the heart and mind,
let me see Your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to You.