10 Bible Verses about Proving, Through Testing

in which you rejoice, though now for a little while, since it is needful, you are in sorrow under various temptations; that your faith, when proved, being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried by fire, may be found to be for praise and honor and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Then Jesus, lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? But this he said to try him; for he himself knew what he was about to do.

My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials, knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

Nor let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.read more.
Where fore, I was angry with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

Make trial of yourselves, whether you are in the faith; put yourselves to the proof. Do you not know your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless you be without proof.

but let each one prove his own work, and then he will have cause to boast with respect to him self only, and not with respect to another:

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge:

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God: and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.