Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
Thematic Bible
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Mine eyes long sore for thy word, saying, "O when wilt thou comfort me?"
After he heard that he was sick, then abode he two days still in the same place where he was.
As for me, I am poor, and in misery, but the LORD careth for me. Thou art my helper and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God.
I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.
Then said Martha unto Jesus, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not been dead:
The Lord is not slack to fulfill his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
Verse Concepts
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
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:
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.
But when the ambassadors of the lords of Babylon were sent to him to enquire of the wonder that chanced in the land, God left him: to tempt him, that all that was in his heart might be known.
And in Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, "Ask what I shall give thee."
The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.
O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
hearken not unto the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. For the LORD thy God tempteth you, to wete whether ye love the LORD your God with all your hearts and with all your souls.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is.
Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"
And he shall sit trying and purging silver, and shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall fine them as gold and silver. And they shall bring offering unto the LORD of righteousness.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not."
After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him, "Abraham." And he answered, "Here am I."
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
After he heard that he was sick, then abode he two days still in the same place where he was.
Then Jesus lift up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, and said unto Philip, "Whence shall we buy bread that these might eat?" This he said to prove him. For he himself 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 beaten them sore, they cast them into prison commanding the jailer to keep them surely. Which jailer, when he had received such commandment, 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, 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.
spiritual Tests » Faith 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."
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
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."
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations, forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:
spiritual Tests » Faith 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.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.
spiritual Tests » Faith 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.
spiritual Tests » Faith 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."
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like a man which built a house: and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. When the waters arose, the flood beat upon that house, and could not move it. For it was grounded upon a rock.