25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

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

Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart.

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

I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

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

Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.

but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

But, O LORD of the hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them, for unto thee I have uncovered my cause.

The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts one to another.

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast refined us as silver is refined.

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

What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him

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

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

Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?

But thou, O LORD, dost know me; thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

because it shall be a trial. What shall be if it does not despise the rod? said the Lord GOD.

And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

O LORD of the hosts, who examines that which is just, who seest the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee I have opened my cause.