50 Bible Verses about Tests

Examine all things; retain that which is good.

knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts one to another.

Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:

For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.

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

Until the time that his word came, the spoken word of the LORD purified him.

Nun Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.

but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

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

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse trials,

and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment?

And let these also first be proved; then let them minister, if they are blameless.

I know also, my God, that thou dost try the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now have I seen with joy that thy people, who are present here, have given willingly unto thee.

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

But he said this to prove him, for he knew what he would do.

Now these are the Gentiles which the LORD left, to prove Israel with them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast refined us as silver is refined.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.

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

And they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

Prove, now, with thy slaves ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, think it not strange when you are tried by fire (which is done to prove you) as though some strange thing happened unto you,

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

As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tries the hearts.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.

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

Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.

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

But Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me if I speak again on this occasion; only let me prove again now with the fleece. I pray thee, let it be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart.

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

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Israel and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

I speak not as commanding, but by occasion of the diligence of others and to prove the sincerity of your charity.

But let everyone prove his own work, and then he shall have glory regarding only himself, and not in another.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

O LORD of the hosts, who examines that which is just, who seest the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee I have opened my cause.