Deuteronomy 8:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

Cross References

James 1:3

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proven character of your faith   #– #more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire   #– #may result  in praise, glory, and honour  at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna,  which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

Exodus 16:4

Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.  He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.”

2 Chronicles 32:31

When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers  were sent  to him to enquire about the miraculous sign  that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.

Exodus 15:25

So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. The Lord made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

John 2:25

and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

James 4:6

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.   ,

Deuteronomy 29:5

I led you for forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified   rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’

Amos 2:10

And I brought you from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness in order to possess the land of the Amorite.

Isaiah 2:17

The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Proverbs 17:3

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold, and the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Job 33:17

in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress the pride of a person.

2 Chronicles 33:12

When he was in distress, he sought the favour of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself  before the God of his ancestors.

Deuteronomy 13:3

do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.

Deuteronomy 7:18

do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year,  in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything the Lord had commanded him to say to them.

Genesis 22:1

After these things God tested Abraham  and said to him, ‘Abraham! ’ ‘Here I am,’ he answered.

Revelation 2:23

I will strike her children dead.   , Then all the churches will know that I am the one who examines minds and hearts,   and I will give to each of you according to your works.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and how God was receptive to his prayer, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Events of Hozai.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 20:20

Moses responded to the people, ‘Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not  sin.’

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

Judges 2:22

I did this to test Israel and to see whether or not they would keep the Lord’s way  by walking in it, as their ancestors had.’

Judges 3:4

The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.

Nehemiah 9:19

you did not abandon them in the wilderness because of your great compassion. During the day the pillar of cloud never turned away from them, guiding them on their journey. And during the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

Ezekiel 20:19

I am the Lord your God. Follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practise them.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will teach you.

Jeremiah 2:6

They stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’