25 Bible Verses about trying
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Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.
will be expos'd. for the time of tryal will show it: it shall be discovered by the fire, which will put each sort of work to the test.
Thereupon they again endeavour'd to seize him: but he escaped out of their hands, and retir'd beyond Jordan,
for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:
you have heard of my former behaviour, whilst I was of the Jewish religion, with what excessive violence I persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:
this I Paul have frequently attempted, but Satan has been my obstacle.
not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.
for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do.
but now ye seek to kill me, the man who has told you the truth, such as I have learnt it of God: Abraham did not act thus.
'Twas by faith that Abraham, when put to the trial, offered up Isaac: HE offered up his darling son, to whose posterity the promises were to be made good:
why therefore do you tempt God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear?
when Simon saw that the holy spirit was given by imposition of the hands of the apostles, he offered them money, saying,
another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, which I am going to prove: I beg you to excuse me.
when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he try'd to associate himself with the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and could not be persuaded that he was a disciple.
they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
was very desirous to see the person of Jesus, but could not for the crowd, he being of a low stature.
then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus was conceal'd by the crowd which he pass'd thro', and so got out of the temple.
These things have I written to you concerning those that would seduce you.
that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:
