26 Bible Verses about Testing God
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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith 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.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Now therefore why tempt ye 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 chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware 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 temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.read more.
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?