trying to learn ¹  what is pleasing to the Lord.

Examine me, O Lord, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives! ¹ 

And that you visit ¹  them every morning, and try ²  them every moment? ³ 

So Isaiah replied, ¹  “Pay attention, ²  family ³  of David. ⁴  Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! ¹  Test me, and know my concerns! ² 

So I say: “Don’t look at me! ¹  I am weeping bitterly. Don’t try ²  to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” ³ 

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit ¹  of many, so that they may be saved.

“Exert every effort ¹  to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

“But turn, all of you, ¹  and come ²  now! ³  I will not find a wise man among you.

And let us not put Christ ¹  to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes. ² 

Another ¹  said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, ²  and I am going out ³  to examine them. Please excuse me.’

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. ¹ 

Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden ¹  for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; ²  yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it.

Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. ¹  Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

If I lift myself up, ¹  you hunt me as a fierce lion, ²  and again ³  you display your power ⁴  against me.

Jesus said to him, “Once again it is written: ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’” ¹ 

For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, ¹  is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them ²  to your governor! Will he be pleased with you ³  or show you favor?” asks the Lord who rules over all.

Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, ¹  who do their work in secret and boast, ²  “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?” ³ 

Even some of the wise will stumble, resulting in their refinement, purification, and cleansing until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.