17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;" then they said to him, "Now say 'Shibboleth;'" and he said "Sibboleth;" for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold of him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Therefore, by their fruits you will 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 its fruit.

Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me. But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh."

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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