26 Bible Verses about Testing God
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Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice; They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land; When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
And Isaiah said again to Ahaz, Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens. But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.read more.
And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.
And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,
And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.
So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?