Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
To the overseer; chanting of David.
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Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.
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Mine eyes failed for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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When therefore he heard that he is sick, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days.
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And I am poor and needy, Jehovah will think upon me: thou my help and my deliverer; thou will not delay, O my God.
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I was wearied in my calling, my throat was dried up: mine eyes failed waiting for my God.
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Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming.
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By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,
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That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
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Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
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And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord.
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And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs.
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And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment:
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
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Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart
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In the hill Jehovah was seen to Solomon in a dream at night: and God will say, Ask what I shall give to thee.
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Jehovah will try the just one: and the unjust and him loving violence, his soul hated.
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Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not
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Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.
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Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
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And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses will say to the people, Ye shall not fear; for for this cause God came to try you, that his fear shall be to your faces, so that ye shall not sin.
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And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he heard that he is sick, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days.
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Then Jesus having lifted up the eyes, and seen that a great crowd comes to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these might eat? And this he said trying him: for himself knew what he was about to do.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And he will say, Take now thy son, thine only, whom thou didst love, Isaak, and go by thyself to the land of Moriah; and carry him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I told thee.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
And he will say, Go ask for thyself vessels from without from all thine dwelling near; empty vessels; thou shalt not be little.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
And king Jehoram will go forth in that day out of Shomeron, and he will review all Israel.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And encompass the city all ye men of war, and surround the city one time: so shalt thou do six days.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And Jehovah will say to Gideon, By the three hundred men lapping, I will save you, and give Midian into thy hand: and all the people shall go, a man to his place.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock.
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