26 Bible Verses about Testing God

Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, 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.

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Jesus said to him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

And Jesus answering, said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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

Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why chide you with me? why 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 who 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;

And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

Yes, 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 to her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold the feet of them who 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 by serpents.

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

And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God are delivered.

Because all those men who 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 swore to 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 spoke again to Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the hight 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 and the Sadducees came, and, tempting, desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.

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

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

They said therefore to him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?