For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

为此我先前也写信给你们，要试验你们，看你们凡事顺从不顺从。

为此，我先前也写信给你们，正是要考验你们，看你们是否在一切事上都顺从我。

为此，我先前也写信给你们，正是要考验你们，看你们是否在一切事上都顺从我。

为此，我也曾写信给你们，想知道你们是否凡事顺服。

为这缘故，我写了那封信，要考验你们是不是凡事都顺从。

其实我也为此写了信，就是要知道你们经过考验的品德：你们是否在一切事上都顺从。

為此我先前也寫信給你們，要試驗你們，看你們凡事順從不順從。

為此，我先前也寫信給你們，正是要考驗你們，看你們是否在一切事上都順從我。

為此，我先前也寫信給你們，正是要考驗你們，看你們是否在一切事上都順從我。

為此，我也曾寫信給你們，想知道你們是否凡事順服。

為這緣故，我寫了那封信，要考驗你們是不是凡事都順從。

我先前寫信給你們，正是要知道你們被試驗的品德是不是凡事聽從的。

其實我也為此寫了信，就是要知道你們經過考驗的品德：你們是否在一切事上都順從。

為此我曾遺書、欲知爾凡事承順之徵、

吾為此、以書達爾、欲試爾凡事順與否、

我因此以書達爾、欲試爾凡事順服否、

蓋前書所云、亦不過欲借此測驗爾等之服從否耳。

Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

I wrote to you for another special reason. I wanted to see if you could stand the test. I wanted to see if you could obey everything asked of you.

I wrote to you as I did to test you and see if you would fully comply with my instructions.

I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.

For to this end I also wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.