12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

From their fruits ye shall recognize them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

So then, from their fruits ye shall know them.

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

which, when it was filled having drawn it up again upon the beach, and sitting down, they gathered the good into vessels, but cast away the bad.

for each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs of thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

By this shall all know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."

but whosoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected: in this we know that we are in Him.

In this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ hath come in flesh is of God;

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears us not: from this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do His commandments.