2 Corinthians 7:12-15
7:12 So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf
before God.
7:13 Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit.
7:14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you,
but just as everything we said to you was true,
so our boasting to Titus about you
has proved true as well.
7:15 And his affection for you is much greater
when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
2 Corinthians 8:24
8:24 Therefore show
them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.
Exodus 16:4
16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they will walk in my law or not?
Deuteronomy 8:2
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you
and eventually bring good to you.
Deuteronomy 13:3
13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer,
for the
Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him
with all your mind and being.
Philippians 2:22
2:22 But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.