17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not.

But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No; Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself. If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away.

For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.