50 Bible Verses about Tests

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

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

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

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

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth 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 divers temptations;

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

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

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by 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 that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And I will bring the third part through 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 hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

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

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

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

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

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried 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 the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

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

As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

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 trieth the hearts.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

And 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.

And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine 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 children 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 his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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

But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.