Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”
But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test 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.”
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
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