25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my heart and my mind.

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

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

I know also, my God, that You try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here to offer willingly to You.

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

But, O Jehovah of Hosts who judges rightly, who tries the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have revealed my cause.

Jehovah is in His holy temple; Jehovah's throne is in Heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids examine the children of men.

Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,

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

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

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

What is man, that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,

and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?

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

Therefore so says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for what else can I do for the daughter of My people?

Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?

But You, O Jehovah, know me. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them for the day of slaughter.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Because it is a trial, and what if even the despising rod shall not be? says the Lord Jehovah.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who tries the righteous and sees the reins and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have committed my cause to You.