57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will grant you understanding in all [these things].

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe your commands.

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound."

And they will teach my people [the difference] between what is holy and what is unholy, and [the difference] between unclean and clean they must show them.

For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,

to another {miraculous powers}, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues.

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?"

On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod [is] for the back of one who lacks {sense}.

Who can perceive [his] errors? Acquit me from hidden [faults].

Now the spiritual [person] discerns all [things], but he himself is judged by no one.

Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how [is it] you do not know how to evaluate this present time?

Choose for yourselves {wise and discerning and knowledgeable men} for [each of] your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.'

You will return and see [the difference] between [the] righteous and [the] wicked, between [the one who] serves God and the one who does not serve him.

And God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself {a long life} and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself {the ability to make wise judgments};

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled [with] the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as {breadth of understanding}, as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore.

But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged.

My child, may they not escape from your {sight}; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence.

For {they are a nation void of sense}, and there is not [any] understanding in them.

A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to [men who] know understanding.

To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding,

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,

All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.

For the one who eats and drinks, [if he] does not recognize the body, eats and drinks judgment against himself.

The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.

I [am] your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your statutes.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--

Let two or three prophets speak, and the others evaluate.

He who spares his sayings knows knowledge, and a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

and early in the morning, 'Today [it will be] stormy weather, because the sky is red [and] darkening.' You know how to evaluate correctly the appearance of the sky, but you are not able [to evaluate] the signs of the times.

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

A man of wealth [is] wise in his own eyes, but the intelligent poor sees through him.

He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.

Who [is] wise that he can understand these [things]? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh [are] right, and [the] righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

He deprives [the] trustworthy of speech, and he takes away [the] discretion of elders.

may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction,

An intelligent {mind} will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.

And {you must observe them diligently}, for that [is] your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all [of] these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation [is] a wise and discerning people.'

Deep waters [are like] purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out.

therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."

I understand more than [the] elders, for I keep your precepts.

They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes [are] besmeared {so that they cannot see}, their {minds} {so that they have no insight}.