25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.

Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being} and my {mind}.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

I, Yahweh, examine [the] {mind}, test [the] {heart}, and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.

And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these [things], and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish [the] righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

But Yahweh of hosts, who judges [in] righteousness, who tests [the] {inmost being}, and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.

Yahweh [is] in his holy temple; Yahweh [is] in the heavens [on] his throne. His eyelids see; they test [the] children of humankind.

Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.

I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace [is] for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.

"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},

so that you visit him {every morning}, you test him {every moment}?

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I [am] about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the {presence} of the daughter of my people?

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

But you, Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test [that] my heart [is] with you. Tear them apart like sheep for [the] slaughtering, and set them apart for [the] day of slaughter.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

For {examine}! And what if also [the] rod will not be despising?' {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"

the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Yet, Yahweh of hosts, who tests [the] righteous, who sees [the] {heart} and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.