26 Bible Verses about Testing God

"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter," says the Lord who rules over all, "to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.

You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.

Jesus said to him, "Once again it is written: 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

So the people contended with Moses, and they said, "Give us water to drink!" Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?"

So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.

"Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

Peter then told her, "Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!"

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

But Ahaz responded, "I don't want to ask; I don't want to put the Lord to a test."

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!'"

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness, where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

The Lord again spoke to Ahaz: "Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous." But Ahaz responded, "I don't want to ask; I don't want to put the Lord to a test."read more.
So Isaiah replied, "Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?