26 Bible Verses about Testing God

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Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.

Deuteronomy 6:16

“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him, “On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Luke 4:12

And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Psalm 95:9

“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Hebrews 3:9

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
And saw My works for forty years.

Exodus 17:2

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Exodus 17:7

He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us, or not?”

Numbers 14:22

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

Psalm 78:18

And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,

Psalm 106:14

But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And tempted God in the desert.

Hebrews 3:8

Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”

Numbers 14:22-23

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Psalm 95:8-9

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Isaiah 7:10-13

Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”read more.
Then he said, “Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?

Matthew 22:35

One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

John 6:30

So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?

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