25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart.

Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.

"Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

I know my God, that thou provest the heart and hast pleasure in plainness. And in plainness of mine heart I have willingly given all this. And now I see thy people, which are here in gladness to offer willingly to thee.

O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

Therefore I will beseech thee now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous judge, thou that tryest the reins and the hearts: let me see the avenged of them, for unto thee have I committed my cause.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.

I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts.

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

Like as silver is tried in the fire and gold in the furnace, even so doth the LORD prove the hearts.

"What is man, that thou dost magnify him? And that thou settest thy heart upon him?

Thou visitest him early, and every day: and suddenly doest thou try him.

Behold, I have purged thee, and not for money. I have chosen thee in the fire of poverty;

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Behold, I will melt them, and try them, for what should I else do to my people?

Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?

But thou LORD, to whom I am well known, thou that hast seen, and proved my heart; take them away, like as a flock is carried to the slaughter house, and appoint them for the day of slaughter.

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

And what a trial shall this be, when even my scepter shall be reproved? That shall not be, sayeth the LORD God.

And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

And now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous searcher which knowest the reins and the very hearts: let me see them punished, for unto thee I commit my cause.