'Test' in the Bible

So here's how we'll test you. You can bet the life of Pharaoh that you're not leaving here until your youngest brother comes here!

One of you is to be sent back so he can get your brother while the rest of you remain in custody. That way, we'll test whether or not you're telling the truth. If you're not, as surely as the Pharaoh lives, you're spies!"

But the man who was in charge of the land responded, "I'm going to test your honesty. Leave one of your brothers with me, take some grain for the famine that's afflicting your households, and leave.

The LORD told Moses, "Listen very carefully! I'll cause food to rain down for you from heaven, and the people are to go out and gather each day's portion on that day. In this way I'll test them to demonstrate whether or not they'll live according to my instructions.

Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you may fear him in order that you don't sin."

"Don't test the LORD your God like you did in Massah.

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert, to humble and test you in order to make known what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

and fed you in the desert with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, to humble and test you so that things go well with you later.

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

They remained there to test Israel, to reveal if they would obey the commands of the LORD that he issued to their ancestors through Moses.

Then Gideon told God, "Don't let yourself be angry with me! I want to ask you once again: please let me make a test with the fleece just once more. Cause it to be dry only on the fleece, but let there be dew all around on the ground."

When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon's reputation with the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.

visit him every morning, and test him continually?

Examine me, LORD, and inspect me! Test my heart and mind.

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.

I told myself, "I will test you with pleasure, so enjoy yourself." But this was pointless.

"As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals."

I used my wisdom to test all of this. I said, "I want to be wise," but it was beyond me.

But Ahaz replied, "I won't ask! I won't put the LORD to the test."

"I've made you an assayer of my people, as well as a fortress. You know how to test their way."

Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, I'm about to refine and test them. Because they're my people, what else can I do?

You know me, LORD. You see me and test my thoughts toward you. Pull the wicked out like sheep for slaughter; set them apart for the day of butchering.

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

because testing is sure to come. "In putting the sword to the test along with the scepter, it won't keep on rejecting, will it?' declares the Lord GOD."

"Please test your servants for ten days and let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and see if I won't throw open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure.

When the Pharisees and Sadducees arrived, in order to test Jesus they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.

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

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

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

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.

Let's stop putting the Lord to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

I had also written to you to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in every way.

Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?

I hope you will realize that we haven't failed our test.

We pray to God that you will not do anything wrong not to show that we have not failed the test, but so that you may do what is right, even if we seem to have failed.

Even though my condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. On the contrary, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, or as if I were the Messiah Jesus.

Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good.

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

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.

Because you have obeyed my command to endure, I will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming to the whole world to test those living on the earth.