57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Consider what I say, and the Lord will give you understanding in all things.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge; for I have believed Your Commandments.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and in all perception;

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."

And they shall teach My people to discern between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean.

yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding;

and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.

that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,

And give to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this, Your great people?

In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him who is without understanding.

Who can understand his errors? Oh make me pure from secret faults;

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.

Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?

Give wise and understanding men, and those known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.

Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.

And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, and have not asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to judge justly,

The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and judgment,

For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.

And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.

to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding;

To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

judgment shall keep you, understanding shall keep you,

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.

Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, every good path.

And if there are two or three prophets, let them speak, and let the others judge.

He who has knowledge uses few words; a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

And in the morning, Foul weather today; for the sky is red and gloomy. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot see the signs of the times!

Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

Wisdom is before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

the wise hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom;

The heart of the prudent gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

And you shall keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Wisdom in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.

I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments.

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.