57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.

But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings.

And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.

Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:

To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.

I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.