10 Bible Verses about Proving, Through Testing

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials: that the test of your faith (much more precious than that of gold, which is of a perishing nature, though proved by fire) may be found unto praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Then Jesus lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a vast concourse of people was come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat? And this he said to try him: for himself knew what he would do.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials; knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in the wilderness; when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works during forty years.read more.
Wherefore I was provoked against that generation, and said, They are always deluded in heart, and they have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your ownselves: know ye not your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate?

But let every man bring his own work to the test, and then shall he have glorying in himself alone, and not [by comparison] with another.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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

BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world. By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God. And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.