50 Bible Verses about Tests

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

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

the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he 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 concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."

No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God {cannot be tempted} by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

for [the] ear tests words, and [the] palate tastes {food}.

And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.

Until [the] time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested him.

Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God {is testing you to know whether you love} Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all [of] your inner self.

Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,

so that you visit him {every morning}, you test him {every moment}?

and these also must be tested first; then let them serve [if they] are above reproach.

And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these [things], and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.

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

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

These [are] the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them ([that is, to test] all those who {had not experienced} any of the wars of Canaan,

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"

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

Test yourselves [to see] if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ [is] in you, unless you are unqualified?

You shall not put Yahweh your God to [the] test, as you tested [him] at Massah.

So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

"Please test your servants [for] ten days, and let them give us {some of the vegetables}, and let us eat and let us drink water.

I, Yahweh, examine [the] {mind}, test [the] {heart}, and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, [when it] takes place to test you, as [if] [something] strange were happening to you.

So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man [is tested by] the mouth of him who praises him.

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

A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace [is] for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.

You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

Does not [the] ear test words and [the] palate taste food for itself?

And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you so that his fear will be before you so that you do not sin."

And Gideon said to God, "{Do not let your anger burn} against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground."

Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being} and my {mind}.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the {Israelites} and because of their testing Yahweh [by] saying, "Is Yahweh in our midst or not?"

And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

Yahweh [is] in his holy temple; Yahweh [is] in the heavens [on] his throne. His eyelids see; they test [the] children of humankind.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

The words of Yahweh [are] pure words [like] silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.

Yet, Yahweh of hosts, who tests [the] righteous, who sees [the] {heart} and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.