Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:7 Deut. 6:16

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test(A) as you did at Massah.

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16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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We should not test Christ,[a](A) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.(B)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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18 They willfully put God to the test(A)
    by demanding the food they craved.(B)

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18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

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41 Again and again they put God to the test;(A)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.(B)

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41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(A)

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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And he called the place Massah[a](A) and Meribah[b](B) because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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  1. Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

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So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water(A) to drink.”(B)

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”(C)

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Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

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Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?(A) Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

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Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

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15 But now we call the arrogant(A) blessed. Certainly evildoers(B) prosper,(C) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”

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15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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where your ancestors tested(A) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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14 In the desert(A) they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness(B) they put God to the test.(C)

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14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

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56 But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.

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56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

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