26 Bible Verses about Testing God

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

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?

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?”

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Then Peter said to her, “Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well.”

Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

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

So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.’”

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.

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.

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?

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.

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

The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him.

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?