50 Bible Verses about Tests

but prove all things, hold fast the right;

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.

For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?

And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them.

And I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart have I willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, offer willingly to thee.

And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?

Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.

And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and will not tempt Jehovah.

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?

And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.

Then Gideon said to God, "Let not thy anger burn against me, let me speak but this once; pray, let me make trial only this once with the fleece; pray, let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."

Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?

Jehovah is in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.