26 Bible Verses about Testing God

Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

You shall not test the LORD your God, as you tested him in Massah.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, You shall not test the Lord your God.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, You shall not test the Lord your God.

When your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw my work.

When your fathers tested me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Therefore the people did strive with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why do you strive with me? why do you test the LORD?

Now therefore why test God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put me to the test now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

Yea, they turned back and tested God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tested and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.

Harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness:

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them who have buried your husband are at the door, and shall carry you out.

Neither let us test Christ, as some of them also tested him, and were destroyed by serpents.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I test the LORD.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.

Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put me to the test now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of trials in the wilderness: When your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw my work.

Moreover the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I test the LORD.read more.
And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and testing him desired that he would show them a sign from heaven.

Then one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him, and saying,

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, testing him.

They said therefore unto him, What sign do you show then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?