41 Bible Verses about trying

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

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.

Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and taken from the breasts.

For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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

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

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

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

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

Therefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

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

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.

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

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

And if you offer the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever:)

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?

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them: I pray you have me excused.

And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

And he sought to see who Jesus was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.

Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that deceive you.

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

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: