11 Bible Verses about Testing God

"Again it is written," replied Jesus, "'Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof.'"

The reply of Jesus was, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not put the Lord they God to the proof.'"

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

"How was it," replied Peter, "that you two agreed to try an experiment upon the Spirit of the Lord? The men who have buried your husband are already at the door, and they will carry you out."

And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Him; and, to make trial of Him, they asked Him to show them a sign in the sky.

and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,

The Pharisees followed Him and began to dispute with Him, asking Him for a sign in the sky, to make trial of Him.

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?