Thematic Bible: Faith tested tested
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By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he should afterward receive to inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he should go.
By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tempted, and he offered him being his only begotten son, which had received the promises:
that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:
And when he was come into the home, the blind came to him: and Jesus said unto them, "Believe ye that I am able to do this?" And they said unto him, "Yea, Lord."
And Jesus said unto her, "Let the children first be fed. For it is not meet, to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto whelps."
Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment:
Faith » Faith tested tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah said unto her, "Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first of all, and bring it out to me, and afterward make for thee and thy son.
Faith » Faith tested tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
"Up, and get thee to Zarephath a city of Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee."
Faith » Faith tested tested » Of abraham
And he said, "Take thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and get thee unto the land of Moria, and sacrifice him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will show thee."
Faith » Faith tested tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
And he said, "Go and borrow thee in other places, of all thy neighbours, empty vessels - and that not a few.
Faith » Faith tested tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
Faith » Faith tested tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And ye shall compass the city, all that be men of war, and go round about it once: and so shall you do six days.
Faith » Faith tested tested » By reducing a general's army
And the LORD said unto Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand. And all the other people shall go every man unto his own home."