Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may resul
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and
Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this v
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one
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
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the l
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcisio
Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking
I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, bu
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of M
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp an
I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of
So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in tha
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had c
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his f
His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high p
He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether yo
Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now h
But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon J
Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, an