Deuteronomy 8:2

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

and all ate the same spiritual food;

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them,

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.