30 Bible Verses about Testing

My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated. Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me; but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do.

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit." But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us." In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."read more.
But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me." He answered, "It is not seemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs." "True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet (the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. "Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."read more.
"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs." "For that saying of yours, go home," he replied; "the demon has departed from your daughter." So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed.

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand? Are your minds so slow to comprehend? You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces did you take up?" "Twelve," they said.read more.
"And when the seven for the four thousand, how many hampers full of fragments did you pick up?" "Do you not yet understand?" he said.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

But try all, holding fast to the good.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest. The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is. If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.read more.
If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

"It is written again," answered Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

"It has been said," replied Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God."

Presently some of the Pharisees came up to him, and made test of him by asking, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?"

Presently some Pharisees came up and tested him, by asking if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife.

"Why was it," said Peter, "that you both agreed to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out."

"Now then, why are you tempting God by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

Continue not to harden your hearts as in the Provocation, On the day of temptation in the wilderness, When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.