Bible Verses About Testing

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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

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

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

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.

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 have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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

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.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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.

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.

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.