25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you 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 the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

I know also, my God, that you test 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 have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly unto you.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

The LORD tests the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

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

What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?

And that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

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

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will refine them, and test them; for how shall I deal with the daughter of my people?

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tested my heart toward you: 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 tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword despise even the rod? it shall be no more, says the Lord GOD.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I opened my cause.