Bible Verses About Divine Test

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.