25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

"I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.

The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

visit him every morning and test him every moment?

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" declares the Lord GOD.

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.