Sentence examples for god to test from inspiring English sources

He prods God to test Job; later, Satan is blamed for pushing King David into an unpopular tax plan.

But it wasn't sent by God to test the devotion of a Syrian painting contractor in New Orleans.

Not because this is some giant pop quiz by God to test us -- but because he did not perform any miracles!

The man's death was viewed as ordained by God to test the faith of the congregants, and to demonstrate to non-believers that the snakes they handled were, in fact, dangerous.

So complete is their difference that they often appear as two super-humans designed by the gods to test the two poles of art: power versus patterns, speed versus guile, logic versus chaos.

Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until a more opportune time.

Attentive hearers of the Gospel will recognize how the wilderness experience of Jesus echoes the people of Israel in the wilderness after Moses led them out of Egypt: 40 days-40 years, the trial of hunger in the wilderness, putting God to the test in the wilderness, falling down to worship something, someone other than God in the wilderness.

And while Luke records Jesus' answer as "Do not put the Lord your God to the test," what I also heard his year was, "Dude!

The Lord's response to each of the temptations is a quote from the Book of Deuteronomy; "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Deuteronomy 8 3), "Do not put the Lord your God to the test" (Deuteronomy 6 16), "Worship the Lord your God and serve only him" (Deuteronomy 6 13).

In the wilderness, you as an individual are expected to put God to the test, thinking you're always right, or you should always win, or you should pay less, or you should have more, or you should always be happy.

Put God to the test and you will be surprised at the result.