12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

Thus you will know them by their fruits.

"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

which, when it was full, they drew it up on the shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in him:

By this you know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.