40 Bible Verses about trying

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.

As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,

And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple.

Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.

So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.

I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ: