50 Bible Verses about Tests

Test all things; hold fast that which is good.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is.

The LORD tests the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:

For the ear tests words, as the mouth tastes food.

And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tested him.

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

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

You shall not hearken unto 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.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials;

And that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

I know also, my God, that you test 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 have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly unto you.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, You shall not test the Lord your God.

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

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

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are counterfeits?

You shall not test the LORD your God, as you tested him in Massah.

Yea, they turned back and tested God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Test your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

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

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Now therefore why test God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

As the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man judged by his praise.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I test the LORD.

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

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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

Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?

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

And Gideon said unto God, Let not your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me test, I pray you, 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 LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

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

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

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tested him, 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 behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

I speak not by commandment, but to prove by the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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

But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I opened my cause.