26 Bible Verses about Testing God

Bring every tithe into my barn, that there may be meat in mine house: and prove me withal, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven unto you, and pour you out a blessing with plenteousness.

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Massah.

And Jesus said to him, "It is written also, 'Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God.'"

Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.

And the people chode with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said unto them, "Why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"

Now therefore, why tempt ye God, that ye would put a yoke on the disciples necks 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?"

For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,

They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.

They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.

Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant:

A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.

harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

Then Peter said unto her, "Why have ye 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 tempted and were destroyed of serpents.

But Ahaz answered, "I will not ask, neither will tempt the LORD."

Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice, there shall not one see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that railed upon me, see it.

Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

Moreover, God spake unto Ahaz, saying, "Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God, from alow beneath, or from on high above." But Ahaz answered, "I will not ask, neither will tempt the LORD."read more.
Wherefore the LORD said, "Hearken, ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?

Then came to him the Pharisees with the Sadducees also, and did tempt him, desiring him to show them some sign from heaven.

and one of them, which was a doctor of law, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven and tempting him,

They said unto him, "What sign showest thou, then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work?