Bible Verses About Testing of Faith

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

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

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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?

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

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

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

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

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.

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.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

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

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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.

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

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)