8 Bible Verses about Spiritual Discernment

"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

"For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

"Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah," said Jesus; "for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven!

to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.