22 Bible Verses about Discernment

Mark well what I am saying: the Lord will give you discernment in everything.

Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,

For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."

to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues;' to another the interpretation of tongues.

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is himself judged by no one.

Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

If, however, we estimated ourselves aright, we should not be judged.

For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright.

But if there are Prophets, let two or three speak and let the rest judge.

and in the morning, 'It will be rough weather to-day, for the sky is red and murky.' You learn how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens, but the signs of the times you cannot.

The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.