Deuteronomy 13:3
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God {is testing you to know whether you love} Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all [of] your inner self.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.
1 Corinthians 11:19
For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.
Deuteronomy 8:16
the one {feeding you} manna in the desert, [food] that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you [so that he could] do good to you {in the future}.
Psalm 66:10
For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Psalm 81:7
In this trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within [the] secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Isaiah 8:20
for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.
Matthew 24:24
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce great signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. {They} accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day [to see] if these [things] were so.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.
Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And because of this, God sends them {a powerful delusion} so that they will believe the lie,
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.
1 John 4:1
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one [who is] in you is greater than the one [who is] in the world.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and [yet] lived.