40 Bible Verses about trying

Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work that it not be done. But now, [O God], strengthen thou my hands.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand.

Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many FALSE prophets have gone out into the world.

But he said this testing him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.

proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

Therefore we wanted to come to you, indeed I, Paul, even once and again, and Satan hindered us.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of LORD tried him.

O taste and see that LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

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

For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.

And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [ye say,] It is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to thy governor. Will he be pleased with thee, or will he accept thy person? says LORD of hosts.

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

By faith Abraham, being tested, offered Isaac. And he who received the promises offered his only begotten son,

(for the redemption of their life is costly, and it fails forever),

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

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

And another said, I bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to test them. I ask thee have me excused.

And when Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to join with the disciples, and they all feared him, not believing that he is a disciple.

As many as desire to make a good impression in flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ.

And he sought to see Jesus, who he was. And he was not able because of the crowd, because his stature was small.

Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

I wrote these things to you concerning those who lead you astray.

and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.