50 Bible Verses about Tests

Examine all things, and keep that which is good.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is.

The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Ye beloved, believe not every spirit: but prove the spirits whether they be of God, or not: for many false prophets are gone out in to the world.

I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts.

Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil, neither tempteth he any man.

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

until the time that his word came, and until the word of the LORD had tried him.

{Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD.

but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

hearken not unto the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. For the LORD thy God tempteth you, to wete whether ye love the LORD your God with all your hearts and with all your souls.

My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

Thou visitest him early, and every day: and suddenly doest thou try him.

And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless.

I know my God, that thou provest the heart and hast pleasure in plainness. And in plainness of mine heart I have willingly given all this. And now I see thy people, which are here in gladness to offer willingly to thee.

Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

This he said to prove him. For he himself knew what he would do.

These are the nations which the LORD left to tempt Israel, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan.

that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope,

And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.

Prove yourselves whether ye are in the faith or not. Examine your own selves: know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be castaways?

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Massah.

They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

"O prove but ten days with thy servants, and let us have pottage to eat, and water to drink:

"Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

Dearly beloved, be not troubled in this heat, which now is come among you to try you, as though some strange thing had happened unto you:

Now therefore, why tempt ye God, that ye would put a yoke on the disciples necks which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.

But Ahaz answered, "I will not ask, neither will tempt the LORD."

Like as silver is tried in the fire and gold in the furnace, even so doth the LORD prove the hearts.

Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

Behold, I have purged thee, and not for money. I have chosen thee in the fire of poverty;

Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not."

And Gideon said unto God, "Be not angry with me, that I speak once more; let me prove only once again with the fleece. Let it be dry only upon the fleece, and dew upon all the ground about."

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart.

And the LORD said unto Satan, "Lo, all that he hath, be in thy power: only upon himself see that thou lay not thine hand." Then went Satan forth from the LORD.

And he called the name of the place: Massah-and-Meribah: because of the chiding 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 tempted him, saying, "Master what shall I do, to inherit eternal life?"

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.

Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in his own self, and not in another.

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

And now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous searcher which knowest the reins and the very hearts: let me see them punished, for unto thee I commit my cause.