19 Bible Verses about Tests

yet try all things, and hold fast that which is good.

knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved 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 be of God: for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials:

(And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.)

And Jesus answered him, it is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

(and this He said to try him, for He knew what He was going to do:)

That the proof of your faith, which is much more precious than of gold, (that perisheth, though tried by fire) may be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, when Jesus Christ shall be revealed:

and patience experience,

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves: do ye not know yourselves to be such that Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprovable.

Beloved, be not surprised at the fiery trial coming upon you, which is to try you, as if some strange thing befel you:

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

And behold, a lawyer stood up to try Him, and said, Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?

I speak not by way of command, but to prove the sincerity of your love also, by means of the forwardness of others.

But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.