50 Bible Verses about Tests

but test everything; hold fast what is good.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORDtested him.

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

visit him every morning and test him every moment?

And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

And Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'"

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

"Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

"I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.

But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test."

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.

You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin."

Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew."

Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.

I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.