Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
Thematic Bible
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently until it receives the early and latter rain.
Mine eyes fail for thy spoken word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
When I am poor and needy; the Lord will remember me; thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then Martha said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not late concerning his promise, as some count lateness, but is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
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By faith Abraham, being called, hearkened to go out into the place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;
knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yes, Lord.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread and to cast it unto the dogs.
and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.
However, because of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what you wish that I shall give thee.
The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.
Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And thou shalt remember all the way by which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to afflict thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.
Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.
And he shall sit to refine and to purify the silver: for he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
Then Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
And it came to pass after these things that God proved Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold, here I am.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him; he said unto Philip, From where shall we buy bread that these may eat? But he said this to prove him, for he knew what he would do.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but first make me a little cake of bread baked under the ashes and bring it unto me, and afterwards thou shalt make for thee and for thy son.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, go to Zarephath of Zidon, and thou shalt dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou dost love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse trials, knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
And he said, Go, borrow vessels from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; borrow not a few.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
Therefore, ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, going round about the city once; and thou shalt do this six days.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
Then the LORD said unto Gideon, With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the other people go each one to his place.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
he is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation upon rock; and when the flood arose, the river beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded upon rock.