41 Bible Verses about trying

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

"To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.

and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

because we wanted to come to you--I, Paul, again and again--but Satan hindered us.

This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORDtested him.

Oh, taste and see that the 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 out as gold.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts.

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

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

And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.'

And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature.

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

visit him every morning and test him every moment?

so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.