10 Bible Verses about Proving, Through Testing

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

On looking up and seeing a large crowd approaching, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for all these people to eat?" (He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial, sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents.

Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert, where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do.read more.
Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways; so I swore in my anger, 'they shall never enter my Rest.'

Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.

let everyone bring his own work to the test ??then he will have something to boast about on his own account, and not in comparison with his fellows.

but test them all, retaining what is good

Let only two or three prophets speak, while the rest exercise their judgment upon what is said.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world. You can recognize the Spirit of God by this: every spirit which confesses Jesus as the Christ incarnate comes from God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus [incarnate] does not come from God. This latter is the spirit of antichrist; you were told it was coming, and here it is already in the world.