10 Bible Verses about Proving, Through Testing
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In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials, that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Then Jesus lining up his eyes, and seeing many people come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? But this he said to try him; for he knew what he was about to do.
Account it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.
Neither let us try Christ, as some of them did 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 provocation, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers fully proved and saw my works forty years.read more.
Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways, so I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves; or know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are reprobates?
But let each one prove his work, and then shall he have joy in himself alone and not in another,
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.
