Tested

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

…not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:

And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.

Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.