25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

'And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

And O Jehovah of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance against them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.'

Jehovah is in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens is His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

Because it is a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

And, O Jehovah of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance out of them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.