50 Bible Verses about Tests
Most Relevant Verses
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.
A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”
No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn’t tempt anyone.
Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.
Until the time his prediction came true,
the word of the Lord tested him.
Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.
do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
And they must also be tested first; if they prove blameless, then they can serve as deacons.
I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.
These are the nations the Lord left in order to test Israel, since the Israelites had fought none of these in any of the wars with Canaan.
so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.
I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.
Do not test the Lord your God as you tested Him at Massah.
They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
“Please test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
I, Yahweh, examine the mind,
I test the heart
to give to each according to his way,
according to what his actions deserve.
Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you as if something unusual were happening to you.
Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and a man for the words of his praise.
You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.
Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear Him and will not sin.”
Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.”
“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
The Lord is in His holy temple;
the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes watch; He examines everyone.
I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.
But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.
The words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in an earthen furnace,
purified seven times.
Lord of Hosts, testing the righteous
and seeing the heart and mind,
let me see Your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to You.
