35 Bible Verses about Proving, Through Testing
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And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou didst set a heavy burden upon our loins. Thou didst cause men to ride upon our head; we went through fire and through water: and thou wilt bring us forth to abundance.
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
I gave thee a watch-tower among my people, a fortification, and thou shalt know and try their way. They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them. The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.read more.
They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold me raining for you bread from the heavens; and the people shall go forth and shall gather the word of a day in its day, so that I shall try them, whether they will go in my law or not
And he will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will show him a tree, and he will cast into the waters, and the waters will become sweet: then he set to him a law and judgment, and there he tried him. And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.
And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live. Thy garments decayed not from thee, and thy feet swelled not this forty years.read more.
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
So as to try Israel by them, whether they are watching the way of Jehovah to go in them, as their fathers watched, or not.
These the nations which Jehovah left to try Israel by them, (all which knew not the wars of Canaan; Only for the generations of the sons of Israel to know to teach them war, only who before knew not;) Five princes of Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivite dwelling in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon.read more.
And they will be to try Israel by them to know whether they will hear the commands of Jehovah which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
When there shall arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gave to thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come which he spake to thee, saying, We will go after other gods which we know not, and we will serve them, Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations: That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I. And he will say, Take now thy son, thine only, whom thou didst love, Isaak, and go by thyself to the land of Moriah; and carry him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I told thee. And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and will saddle his ass, and will take two of his boys with him, and Isaak his son, and he will cleave the wood for the burnt offering, and will rise up and go to the place God spake to him.read more.
In the third day, Abraham will lift up his eyes and will see the place from far And Abraham will say to his boys, Sit ye here in this place with the ass; I and the boy will go even there and worship, and will turn back to you. And Abraham will take the wood of the burnt offering, and put upon Isaak his son; and will take in his hand the fire and the knife, and they will go, they two together. And Isaak will say to Abraham his father, and he will say, My father: and he will say, Behold, me, my son: And he will say, Behold the fire and the wood, and where the sheep for a burnt offering? And Abraham will say, God will see to himself the sheep for a burnt-offering my son: and they will go, they two together. And they will come to the place which God said to him; and Abraham will build an altar there, and put in order the wood: and he will find Isaak his son, and put him upon the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham will stretch out the hand and will take the knife to slaughter his son. And the messenger of Jehovah will call to him out of the heavens, and will say, Abraham, Abraham. And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, Thou shalt not put forth thy hand upon the boy, and thou shalt do nothing to him; for now I know that thou feared God, and thou didst not spare thy son thine only, from me. And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham will call the name of that place, Jehovah will see: which shall be said to this day, Jehovah will see in the mountain And the messenger of Jehovah will call to Abraham the second time out of the heavens. And he will say, By myself did I swear, says Jehovah, for because that thou didst this word, and didst not spare thy son, thine only. That praising, I will praise thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand upon the lip of the sea; and thy seed shall inherit the gate of his enemies. And in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be praised; because that thou didst listen to my voice.
Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart
Then Jesus having lifted up the eyes, and seen that a great crowd comes to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these might eat? And this he said trying him: for himself knew what he was about to do.
Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul. And they will speak against God; they said, Will God be able to arrange a table in the desert? Behold, he struck the rock and waters will flow, and torrents will pour out; will he be able also to give bread? or will he prepare flesh for his people?read more.
For this Jehovah heard and he will overflow, and a fire was kindled in Jacob, and also anger came up upon Israel. For they believed not in God, and they trusted not in his salvation.
And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will remove from the desert of Sin, according to their removings by the mouth of Jehovah; and they will encamp in Rephidim; and no water for the people to drink. And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah? And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?read more.
And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Pass over before the people and take with thee from the old men of Israel; and thy rod which thou didst strike with it the river, take in thy hand and go. And behold, I stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and strike upon the rock, and waters shall come forth from it, and the people drank. And Moses will do so before the eyes of the old men of Israel. And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?
For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice. If they shall see the land which I sware to their fathers, and all despising me shall not see it
How often they will embitter him in the desert! they will grieve him in the waste. And they will turn back and tempt God, and they broke in upon the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand the day which he redeemed them from the enemy;read more.
How he set in Egypt his signs, and his wonders in the field of loading. And he turned to blood their rivers, and their flowings they shall not drink
They hastened; they forget his works; they waited not for his counsel. And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste. And he will give to them their asking; and he will send leanness into their soul.
Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.
Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert: Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.read more.
Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)
For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice. Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert: When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.read more.
Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways: For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.
And Jehovah will add to speak to Ahaz, saying, Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; make deep the asking, or make high upwards. And Ahaz will say, I will not ask and I will not tempt Jehovah.read more.
And he will say, Hear ye now, house of David; is it small for you to weary men, but will ye weary God also For this, Jehovah he will give to you a sign Behold, the virgin conceiving, and she will bare a son, and call his name Immanuel.
Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?
And let each try his own work, and then in himself alone will he have boasting, and not in another.
Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world. In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.
