Deuteronomy 8:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee: and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Cross References

James 1:3

Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

1 Peter 1:7

That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Deuteronomy 8:16

And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee.

Exodus 16:4

And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you. Let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Deuteronomy 2:7

The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands. The Lord thy God dwelling with thee knoweth thy journey: how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.

2 Chronicles 32:31

But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.

Exodus 15:25

But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

James 4:10

Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

John 2:25

And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.

James 4:6

But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Deuteronomy 29:5

He hath brought you forty years through the desert. Your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

Luke 18:14

I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather that the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

Amos 2:10

It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

Isaiah 2:17

And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down: and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled. And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 17:3

As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Psalm 106:7

And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalm 81:7

But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

Psalm 77:11

And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

Job 33:17

That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.

Deuteronomy 13:3

Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.

Deuteronomy 7:18

Fear not: but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,

Deuteronomy 1:33

Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents: in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them.

Genesis 22:1

After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say,

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and his being heard, and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.

Exodus 16:35

And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

Exodus 20:20

And Moses said to the people: Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.

Numbers 14:33

Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert.

Judges 2:22

That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

Judges 3:4

And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses, or not.

Nehemiah 9:19

Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert. The pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Ezekiel 20:19

I am the Lord your God: Walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments and do them.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old: think upon every generation. Ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

Psalm 103:2

and art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Jeremiah 2:6

And they have not said: Where is the Lord that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?