57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Observe what I say; for may the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

Teach me good taste and knowledge, for I believed in thy commands.

And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

And they shall point out to my people between the holy to the profane, and they shall cause them to know between the unclean to the clean.

For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding

And to another performances of powers; and to another discriminations of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

And give to thy servant a heart to hear to judge thy people to discern between good to evil: for who shall be able to judge this thy weighty people?

In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart

Who will understand errors? acquit me from hidden things.

And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.

O hypocrites, ye know to judge the face of the earth and of heaven; and how do ye not judge this time?

Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.

And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

And God will say to him, Because thou didst ask this word, and didst not ask for thyself many days; and didst not ask for thyself riches, and didst not ask the soul of thine enemies: and didst ask for thyself to have understanding to hear judgment;

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

And God will give wisdom to Solomon, and understanding exceeding much, and breadth of heart as the sand which is upon the lip of the sea.

For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged.

My son, they shall not depart from thine eyes: keep counsel and meditation:

For they a nation destroying counsels, And no understanding in them.

A reproof will take hold upon, him understanding more than a hundred, blows the foolish.

And he changes the times and the seasons; removing kings and setting up kings; giving wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding.

To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

As laughter to the foolish one, to do mischief: and wisdom is to the man of understanding.

Meditation shall watch over thee, understanding shall guard thee:

All of them straight to him understanding, and right to those finding knowledge.

For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

He understanding shall call to the wise of heart: and sweetness of lips shall add knowledge

I am thy servant; cause me to understand, and I shall know thy tesmonies.

Then thou shalt understand justice and judgment and uprightness; every good track.

And let the prophets speak two or three, and let others decide.

He withholding his words will shew knowledge: I man of understanding is a cool spirit

And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

The rich man is wise in his eyes, and the poor one understanding shall search him out.

Wisdom, is with the face of him understanding, and the eyes of the foolish one are in the ends of the earth.

Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

Removing the lip to the faithful, and he will take discernment of old men.

The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance:

The heart of him understanding will obtain knowledge and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.

And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people.

Deep waters are counsel in the heart of man; and a man of understanding will draw it out

For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.

I shall understand above the old men, for I watched thy charges.

They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.