50 Bible Verses about Tests

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence.

Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many FALSE prophets have gone out into the world.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of LORD tried him.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

And let these also first be proven, then being blameless, let them serve as deacons.

I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off

And having answered, Jesus said to him, It is said, Thou shall not challenge Lord thy God.

But he said this testing him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

Now these are the nations which LORD left to prove Israel by them, (even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan,

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

and perseverance, character, and character, hope.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.

Ye shall not challenge LORD your God, as ye challenged him in Massah.

And they turned again and challenged God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Test thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you.

Now therefore why do ye challenge God, to place a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is [tried] by his praise.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I challenge LORD.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

And Moses said to the people, Fear not, for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye not sin.

And Gideon said to God, Let not thine anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Let me make trial, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let t

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they challenged LORD, saying, Is LORD among us, or not?

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life?

LORD is in his holy temple. LORD's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men.

I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

The words of LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times.

But, O LORD of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my cause.