25 Bible Verses about God Testing People

Remember the forty years Jehovah your God led you in the wilderness. He did this in order to humble you and test you. He wanted to know what was in your heart. Whether you would obey his commandments.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and test me. Look closely (deeply) into my heart and mind.

Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious (troubled) (painful) (disturbing) thoughts.

I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind (inner man). I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

I well know, O my God, that you test everyone's heart and are pleased with people of integrity. In honesty and sincerity I have willingly given all this to you. I have seen how your people who are gathered here have been happy to bring offerings to you.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

We always speak, as God wants us to. He has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives (examines our hearts).

O Jehovah of Hosts, you are a fair judge. You test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them. For that reason I presented my case to you.

Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah's throne is in heaven. His eyes see. They examine the sons of men.

Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tested them that they might see that they are like animals.

You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold but Jehovah proves the heart.

What is man that you should magnify him and set your mind on him?

For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.

I have been testing you for myself like silver. I have put you through the fire of trouble.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Behold, I will refine them and assay them. What else can I do, because of the daughter of my people?

Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?

But, you know me, Jehovah. You see what I do and how in my heart I love you. Drag them away like sheep to be butchered. Guard them until it is time for them to be slaughtered.

But He knows the way I walk. He has tried me. I shall come forth as gold.

For there is testing. And what if even the rod that despises will be no more? Declares the Lord Jehovah.

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.

Know that the testing of your faith produces patience (endurance).

Yet, O Jehovah of Hosts you test the righteous. You see the mind and the heart. Let me see your vengeance on them for to you I have revealed my cause.