'Trying' in the Bible

"Get up," he said. "Take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead."

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

And although they were trying to arrest Him, they feared the people, because they regarded Jesus as a prophet.

Perceiving their wickedness, Jesus replied, "Why are you hypocrites trying to ensnare me?

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him:

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him.

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.

They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

And [when it] was day, he departed [and] went to an isolated place. And the crowds were seeking him, and came to him and were trying to prevent him from departing from them.

Some men were bringing a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to take him into the house and place him in front of Jesus.

The whole crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming out from Him and healing them all.

Herod said, "I beheaded John. But who is this man I'm hearing so much about?" So Herod kept trying to see Jesus.

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

And others, trying him , sought of him a sign from heaven.

How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you kept out those who were trying to go in."

He was always trying to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs used to come and lick his sores.

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man.

And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

"We strictly forbad you to teach in that name--did we not?" he said. "And see, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are trying to make us responsible for that man's death!"

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.

But they kept trying to take his life. On learning this, the brethren brought him down to Caesarea, and then sent him by sea to Tarsus.

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Every Sabbath, he would speak in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

but since it is merely a question [of doctrine within your religion] about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I am unwilling to judge these matters.”

Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.

Then some Jews who went around trying to drive out demons attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?"

Meanwhile, the sailors had begun trying to escape from the ship. They lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

From morning until evening, he continued to explain the kingdom of God to them, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets. Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.

As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are, all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon as sheep destined for slaughter."

Lord, they have killed Your prophetsand torn down Your altars.I am the only one left,and they are trying to take my life!

trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.

Have you become committed to a wife? Stop trying to get released from your commitment. Have you been freed from your commitment to a wife? Stop looking for one.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

It is not that we are trying to rule over your faith, but rather to work with you for your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

We are trying to avoid any criticism of the way we are administering this great undertaking.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

Have you been thinking all along that we are trying to defend ourselves before you? We are speaking before God in the authority of the Messiah, and everything, dear friends, is meant to build you up.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

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

Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

These men [the Judaizers] eagerly seek you [to entrap you with honeyed words and attention, to win you over to their philosophy], not honorably [for their purpose is not honorable or worthy of consideration]. They want to isolate you [from us who oppose them] so that you will seek them.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

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.

trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Dear friends, this is now the second of two letters I am writing to you, in which I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by reminding you

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