Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'

(He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

They shook the dust off their feet as a protest and went to Iconium.

They yelled and threw their clothes into the air and flung dust about,

but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup.

For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient.

Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.

let everyone bring his own work to the test ??then he will have something to boast about on his own account, and not in comparison with his fellows.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

but test them all, retaining what is good

It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.

speaking of this as he has done in all his letters ??letters containing some knotty points, which ignorant and unsteady souls twist (as they do the rest of the scriptures) to their own destruction.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

They threw dust on their heads and cried, as they wept and wailed, 'Woe and alas for the great City, where all shipmen made rich profit by her treasures! Gone, gone in one brief hour!'