Deuteronomy 8:2
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2 Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.
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James 1:3
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3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
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1 Peter 1:7
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7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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16 He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.
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Exodus 16:4
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4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
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1 Peter 5:5-6
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5 In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
6 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the Lord your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’
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Malachi 3:2-3
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2 “But who will be able to endure it when he comes? Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes. 3 He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 32:31
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31 However, when ambassadors arrived from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart.
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Exodus 15:25
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25 So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink.
It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.
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James 4:10
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10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.
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John 2:25
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25 No one needed to tell him about human nature, for he knew what was in each person’s heart.
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James 4:6
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6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
Deuteronomy 29:5
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5 For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
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Ephesians 2:11-12
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Oneness and Peace in Christ
11 Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. 12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
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2 Peter 3:1-2
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The Day of the Lord Is Coming
3 This is my second letter to you, dear friends, and in both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory. 2 I want you to remember what the holy prophets said long ago and what our Lord and Savior commanded through your apostles.
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Luke 18:14
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14 I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
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Amos 2:10
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10 It was I who rescued you from Egypt
and led you through the desert for forty years,
so you could possess the land of the Amorites.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
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9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
10 But I, the Lord, search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve.”
Isaiah 2:17
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17 Human pride will be humbled,
and human arrogance will be brought down.
Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.
Proverbs 17:3
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3 Fire tests the purity of silver and gold,
but the Lord tests the heart.
Psalm 136:16
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16 Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness.
His faithful love endures forever.
Psalm 106:7
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7 Our ancestors in Egypt
were not impressed by the Lord’s miraculous deeds.
They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them.
Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.[a]
Footnotes
- 106:7 Hebrew at the sea, the sea of reeds.
Psalm 81:7
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7 You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you;
I answered out of the thundercloud
and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
Psalm 77:11
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11 But then I recall all you have done, O Lord;
I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
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