25 Bible Verses about God Testing People
Most Relevant Verses
And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not
I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.
But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
O Jehovah of armies, judging justice and trying the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance from them, for to thee I uncovered my cause.
Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, in the heavens his throne: his eyes will behold, his eyelashes will try the sons of man.
I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.
What is man that thou wilt magnify him? and that thou wilt set thy heart to him?
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?
And thou, Jehovah, knew me: thou wilt see me, and thou didst try my heart with thee: pluck them out as sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.
For it is a trial, and what if also the rod was rejected? it shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.
Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
And Jehovah of armies trying the just, seeing the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance of them: for to thee I uncovered my cause.