50 Bible Verses about Tests

prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are 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 but as beasts.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:

For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath 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 wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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

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

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, 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, Jehovah is my God.

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

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

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

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

But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

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

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:

Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put 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, neither will I tempt Jehovah.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am 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.

Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

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

And Gideon said unto 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 there be dew.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.