12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing
Most Relevant Verses
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.
By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?
"Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.
It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."
But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.
The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God,
The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.
