Bible Verses About Being Tested

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

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.

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

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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 it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

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

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

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

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

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.