12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Well then! by their fruits ye shall know them.

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

which, when it was full, they drew to the beach, and sitting down, selected the good into baskets, but cast those of a bad kind away.

Every tree is known by its own peculiar fruit. For men do not gather figs from off thorns, nor do they gather from the bramble a bunch of grapes.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

But whosoever keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.