11 Bible Verses about Testing God

Jesus said to him: It is again written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.

And Jesus answered and said to him: It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.

where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Now, therefore, why do you put God to the proof, by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers, nor we ourselves, were able to bear?

harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

But Peter said to her: Why is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out.

Nor let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came to tempt him, and asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a question, that he might tempt him, saying:

And the Pharisees came out, and began to put questions to him, asking of him a sign from heaven, that they might tempt him.

Therefore, they said to him: "What sign do you show, then, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform?