41 Bible Verses about trying

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, "Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won't be completed." "Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!"

the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's action.

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

Determine what pleases the Lord,

That is why we wanted to come to you. Certainly I, Paul, wanted to come time and again, but Satan blocked our way.

As for God, his way is upright; the word of God is pure; he is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

When you probe my heart, and examine me at night; when you refine me, you will find nothing wrong, for I have determined that I will not transgress with my mouth.

until the time his prediction came true, as the word of the LORD refined him.

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in him!

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

The words of the LORD are pure, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Offer that to your governor would he be pleased with you or receive you favorably?" asks the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

"They will enter caverns in the rocks and holes in the ground to escape the presence of the terror of the LORD, to escape the splendor of his majesty when he arises to terrify the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac he who had received the promises was about to offer his unique son in sacrifice,

for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

Don't exhaust yourself acquiring wealth; be smart enough to stop.

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

Another said, "I bought five pairs of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.

These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he couldn't do so due to the crowd, since he was a short man.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

visit him every morning, and test him continually?

so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.