Jesus said to him, "Once again it is written: 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?"

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.'

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

Peter then told her, "Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!"

and said, "You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness -- will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you -- unless, indeed, you fail the test!

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

Now we pray to God that you may not do anything wrong, not so that we may appear to have passed the test, but so that you may do what is right even if we may appear to have failed the test.

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

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.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles (but are not), and have discovered that they are false.

Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, "Woe, Woe, O great city -- in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth -- because in a single hour she has been destroyed!"