Deuteronomy 8:2
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2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.(A)
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James 1:3
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3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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1 Peter 1:7
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7 so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.(A)
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Exodus 16:4
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4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not.(A)
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1 Peter 5:5-6
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5 In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders.[a] And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”(A)
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.
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- 5.5 Or of those who are older
Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’(A)
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Malachi 3:2-3
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2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap;(A) 3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.[a](B)
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- 3.3 Or right offerings to the Lord
2 Chronicles 32:31
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31 So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.(A)
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Exodus 15:25
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25 He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the Lord[a] made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he put them to the test.(A)
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- 15.25 Heb he
James 4:10
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10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.(A)
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John 2:25
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25 and needed no one to testify about anyone, for he himself knew what was in everyone.(A)
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James 4:6
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6 But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”(A)
Deuteronomy 29:5
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5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;(A)
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Ephesians 2:11-12
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One in Christ
11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth,[a] called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands(A)— 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.(B)
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- 2.11 Gk in the flesh
2 Peter 3:1-2
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The Promise of the Lord’s Coming
3 This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you 2 that you should remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.
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Luke 18:14
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14 I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”(A)
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Amos 2:10
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10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.(A)
Jeremiah 17:9-10
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9 The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?(A)
10 I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings.(B)
Isaiah 2:17
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17 The haughtiness of people shall be humbled,
and the pride of everyone shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.(A)
Proverbs 17:3
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3 The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests the heart.(A)
Psalm 136:16
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16 who led his people through the wilderness,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
who made water flow from the rock,
for his steadfast love endures forever;[a]
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- 136.16 Gk: Heb lacks who made water . . . forever
Psalm 106:7
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7 Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wonderful works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love
but rebelled against the Most High[a] at the Red Sea.[b](A)
Psalm 81:7
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7 In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah(A)
Psalm 77:11
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11 I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord;
I will remember your wonders of old.(A)
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