Luke 4:12

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Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

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Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.

We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.

Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’ ”

where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test.

When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.