50 Bible Verses about Tests

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

Let no one say, being tempted -- 'From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.

We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;

All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

'And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

And Jesus answering said to him -- 'It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

'Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

'Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

And Ahaz saith, 'I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?

And Moses saith unto the people, 'Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces -- that ye sin not.'

And Gideon saith unto God, 'Let not Thine anger burn against me, and I speak only this time; let me try, I pray Thee, only this time with the fleece -- let there be, I pray Thee, drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth let there be dew.'

Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, all that he hath is in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.

and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the 'strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their 'trying' Jehovah, saying, 'Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

Jehovah is in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens is His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

And, O Jehovah of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance out of them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.