50 Bible Verses about Tests

Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's action.

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence, he hates.

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

"As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals."

When someone is tempted, he should not say, "I am being tempted by God," because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

Since the ear tests words like a palate tastes food,

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert, to humble and test you in order to make known what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

until the time his prediction came true, as the word of the LORD refined him.

Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD.

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or that diviner of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to make known whether or not you'll continue to love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

visit him every morning, and test him continually?

But they must first be tested. Then, if they prove to be blameless, they may become ministers.

And I know, God, that it is you who searches the heart and you who finds pleasure in righteousness. With a righteous heart I have freely given all these things, and now I have seen all of these people of yours giving freely and joyfully to you!

Jesus answered him, "It has been said, "You must not tempt the Lord your God.'"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?

"Don't test the LORD your God like you did in Massah.

They tested God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

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

I am the LORD who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

As the crucible tests silver, and the furnace assays gold; so praise received tests a man.

But Ahaz replied, "I won't ask! I won't put the LORD to the test."

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold but the LORD assays hearts.

When you probe my heart, and examine me at night; when you refine me, you will find nothing wrong, for I have determined that I will not transgress with my mouth.

Look, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

The ear scrutinizes speech just as the palate tastes food."

Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you may fear him in order that you don't sin."

Then Gideon told God, "Don't let yourself be angry with me! I want to ask you once again: please let me make a test with the fleece just once more. Cause it to be dry only on the fleece, but let there be dew all around on the ground."

Examine me, LORD, and inspect me! Test my heart and mind.

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, everything he owns is under your control, only you may not extend your hand against him." So Satan left the LORD's presence.

He named the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelis quarreled and tested the LORD by saying: "Is the LORD really among us or not?"

Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

The LORD is in his holy Temple; the LORD's throne is in the heavens. His eyes see, his glance examines humanity.

I am not commanding you but testing the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.

Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else.

The words of the LORD are pure, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the inner motives and the heart, let me see you take vengeance on them, for I've committed my case to you.