Luke 15:12

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

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

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.