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.
Jude 1:22
1:22 And have mercy on those who waver;
Jude 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:4
1:4 For certain men
have secretly slipped in among you
– men who long ago
were marked out
for the condemnation I am about to describe
– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil
and who deny our only Master
and Lord,
Jesus Christ.
Psalms 66:10
66:10 For you, O God, tested us;
you purified us like refined silver.
Psalms 81:7
81:7 In your distress you called out and I rescued you.
I answered you from a dark thundercloud.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)
Proverbs 17:3
17:3 The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold,
likewise the Lord tests hearts.
Jeremiah 9:7
9:7 Therefore the Lord who rules over all says,
“I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them.
The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice.
What else can I do?
Jeremiah 9:1
9:1 (8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water
and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!
If they were, I could cry day and night
for those of my dear people who have been killed.
Jeremiah 1:6-7
1:6 I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
1:7 The Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.