Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
Thematic Bible
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.
My eyes long for your word, saying, "When will you comfort me?"
So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.
But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.
I am weary with my calling [out]; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted [in my] waiting for my God.
So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, [because he] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham, [when he] was called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
By faith Abraham, [when he] was tested, offered Isaac, and the one who received the promises was ready to offer his one and only [son],
so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And [when he] came into the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord."
And he said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the dogs!"
And others {experienced mocking and flogging}, and in addition bonds and imprisonment.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.
And thus [in the matter of] the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him [and] to know all [that was] in his heart.
Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."
Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish [the] righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God {is testing you to know whether you love} Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all [of] your inner self.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.
Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.
Verse Concepts
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"
He will sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the children of Levi, and he will refine them like gold and like silver, and they will present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you so that his fear will be before you so that you do not sin."
And it happened [that] after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I [am]."
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.
{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?" (Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going 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 [after they] had inflicted many blows on them, they threw [them] into prison, giving orders to the jailer to guard them securely. Having received such an order, {he} put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
"Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you."
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And he said, "Take your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains where I will tell you."
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials, [because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself [some] containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. {You must collect as many empty containers as you can}!
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And Yahweh said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the three hundred men lapping up [the water]; I will give Midian into your hand, so let the [other] troops go, each to his own place.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And [when] a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well.