Deuteronomy 8:2
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2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you (A)these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, (B)testing you (C)to know what was in your heart, (D)whether you would keep his commandments or not.
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James 1:3
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3 for you know that (A)the testing of your faith (B)produces steadfastness.
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1 Peter 1:7
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7 so that (A)the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes (B)though it is tested by (C)fire—may be found to result in (D)praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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16 who fed you in the wilderness with (A)manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, (B)to do you good in the end.
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Exodus 16:4
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4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain (A)bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may (B)test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
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1 Peter 5:5-6
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5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
6 (C)Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
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Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. (A)He knows your going through this great wilderness. (B)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’
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Malachi 3:2-3
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2 But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. 3 He will sit (C)as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring (D)offerings in righteousness to the Lord.[a]
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- Malachi 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness
2 Chronicles 32:31
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31 And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, (A)who had been sent to him to inquire about (B)the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, (C)in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
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Exodus 15:25
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25 And he (A)cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,[a] and he (B)threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the Lord[b] made for them a statute and a rule, and there he (C)tested them,
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- Exodus 15:25 Or tree
- Exodus 15:25 Hebrew he
James 4:10
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10 (A)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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John 2:25
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25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for (A)he himself knew what was in man.
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James 4:6
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6 But (A)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, (B)“God opposes the proud but (C)gives grace to the humble.”
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Deuteronomy 29:5
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5 (A)I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
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Ephesians 2:11-12
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One in Christ
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called (A)the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember (B)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (C)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (D)the covenants of promise, (E)having no hope and without God in the world.
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2 Peter 3:1-2
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The Day of the Lord Will Come
3 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them (A)I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 (B)that you should remember the predictions of (C)the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,
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Luke 18:14
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14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For (A)everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Amos 2:10
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10 (A)Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
(B)and led you forty years in the wilderness,
(C)to possess the land of the Amorite.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
(B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
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- Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys
Isaiah 2:17
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17 (A)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Proverbs 17:3
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Psalm 136:16
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16 to him who (A)led his people through the wilderness,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
Psalm 106:7
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7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they (A)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but (B)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalm 81:7
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7 In distress you (A)called, and I delivered you;
I (B)answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I (C)tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Psalm 77:11
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11 I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will (A)remember your wonders of old.
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