50 Bible Verses about Tests

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

until the time that his word came, the Word of Jehovah refined him.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

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

My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,

and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?

And let these also first be tested, then let them minister without reproach.

I know also, my God, that You try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here to offer willingly to You.

And Jesus answering said to him, It has been said, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God."

And He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.

And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined.

examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?

You shall not tempt Jehovah your God as you tempted in Massah.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.

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

I beg you, try your servants ten days. And let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke 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 to his praise.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt Jehovah.

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

You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.

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

Does not the ear try words? And does not the mouth taste its food?

And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.

And Gideon said to God, Let not Your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once. I pray You, let me test 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 Jehovah, and prove me; purify my heart and my mind.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not?

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Jehovah is in His holy temple; Jehovah's throne is in Heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids examine the children of men.

I do not speak according to command, but through the eagerness of others, and testing the trueness of your love.

But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.

The Words of Jehovah are pure Words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who tries the righteous and sees the reins and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have committed my cause to You.