30 Bible Verses about Testing

Consider the various tryals that surround you, my brethren, as matter of great joy; knowing this, that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.

that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:

happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

and lest I should be exalted above measure by the extraordinary revelations I have had, I was afflicted in my person, so that the messenger of satan insulted me; concerning which, I besought the Lord thrice, to make him leave me. but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me.

Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great company coming to him, said to Philip, where can we buy bread to feed this people? (this he said to prove Philip: for he himself knew what he had to do.)

and there came a woman of Canaan from those quarters, and cried out to him, have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously tormented by a demon. but Jesus not making her any answer, his disciples came and entreated him to grant her request; for, said they, she is very importunate with us. but he answered, my commission was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.read more.
however she advanc'd, and throwing her self at his feet, cried, O Lord, assist me. but he answered, it is not just to take the childrens bread, and throw it to puppies. 'tis true, Lord, said she: yet even puppies eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. then Jesus answered her, O woman, great is thy faith: as you desire, be it done. and her daughter was healed from that very hour.

for a woman, whose child was possess'd with an impure spirit, having heard of him, found him out, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to force the demon out of her daughter; now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation. Jesus therefore said to her, let the children first be satisfy'd; for it would not be decent to take the children's bread, and throw it to puppys.read more.
she answer'd, true, Lord, yet puppys eat of the crumbs, which children drop under the table. then said Jesus to her, for this expression, go thy way, the demon has left your daughter. accordingly she went home, where she found that the demon was indeed gone out of her daughter, and she was lying on the bed.

said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded? have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too? when I divided the five loaves among five thousand people, how many baskets full of fragments did you take away? they answer'd, twelve.read more.
and when I divided the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you carry away? they answered, seven. don't you yet, said he, comprehend my meaning?

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof; are you so little acquainted with yourselves, as not to know whether Jesus Christ be in you? but if you are destitute of proofs,

but let every one bring his own work to the test, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

bring every thing to the test: if it be proof, abide by that:

now if upon this foundation somebody builds gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: he that builds such work, will be expos'd. for the time of tryal will show it: it shall be discovered by the fire, which will put each sort of work to the test. if the work abide which somebody has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.read more.
if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire.

Jesus replied, it is likewise written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

but Jesus replied, it is said, "thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

The Pharisees likewise came to him, and maliciously propos'd this question, may a man lawfully put away his wife at discretion?

then the Pharisees came and propos'd to him this insnaring question, is it lawful for a man to repudiate his wife?

then Peter said to her, how comes it that you have conspir'd together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? see there at the door the men that are come from burying thy husband, and they shall carry thee out likewise.

why therefore do you tempt God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear?

harden not your hearts, as at Meriba and Massa in the desart: where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.