Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Judges 2:21-22
I also will no longer drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Deuteronomy 7:22
And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little: you may not consume them at once, lest the wild animals of the field become too numerous for you.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end;
Judges 2:10
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:31
However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
Jeremiah 6:27
I have set you for a tester and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
John 2:24
But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Revelation 2:23
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.