Psalms 95:9

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.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

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?”

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

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;

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

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

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

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

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

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?”

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

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

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

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

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

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

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

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?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

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

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

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

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.