Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
Thematic Bible
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the latter rain.
My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
When therefore he had heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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By faith Abraham, when he was called to remove into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing whither he was going.
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 that perisheth, though tried with fire, might be found to praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith to them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of 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 tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
But, in the business of the embassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done 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 I shall give thee.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.
Thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth 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
Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, of what sort it is.
Blessed is the man that endureth 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 I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said to 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 tempted Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he had heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come to him, he saith to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? (And 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 laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer 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 to her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and 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, thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to thee.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even 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 tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round the city once: thus shalt thou do six days.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand: and let all the other people go every man to his place.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like a man who built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.