Limitless Word
πειράζωpeirázō
GreekG398541 occurrences (KJV)

to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline

KJV renders it: assay, examine, go about, prove, tempt(-er), try

Where it appears(showing the first 35 of 41)

  • Matt 4:1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
  • Matt 4:3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
  • Matt 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
  • Matt 19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
  • Matt 22:18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
  • Matt 22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
  • Mark 1:13He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
  • Mark 8:11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
  • Mark 10:2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
  • Mark 12:15Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
  • Luke 4:2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
  • Luke 11:16Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
  • Luke 20:23But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?
  • John 6:6This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
  • John 8:6They 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.
  • Acts 5:9But 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.”
  • Acts 15:10Now 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?
  • Acts 16:7When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.
  • Acts 24:6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
  • 1 Cor 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
  • 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  • 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
  • Gal 6:1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
  • 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • Heb 2:18For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
  • Heb 3:9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
  • Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
  • Heb 11:17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
  • Heb 11:37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
  • Jas 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
  • Jas 1:14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
  • Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
  • Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  • Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.