56 Bible Verses about Discernment

Consider what I say, for may the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed in thy commandments.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,

and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this thy great people?

In the lips of him who has discernment wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].

But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

Ye hypocrites, ye know how to examine the face of the earth and the sky, but how can ye not examine this season?

Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

And God said to him, Because thou have asked this thing, and have not asked for thyself long life, neither have asked riches for thyself, nor have asked the life of thine enemies, but have asked for thyself understanding to discern

The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

And God gave Solomon exceedingly much wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

to know wisdom and instruction, to discern the words of understanding,

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

I am thy servant. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, [yea], every good path.

And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment.

He who spares his words has knowledge, and he who is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

And at morning, Bad weather today, for the sky is red, being gloomy. Hypocrites! Ye indeed know how to discern the face of the sky, but the signs of the times ye are not able.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,

The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. {I will destroy the wisdom of the wise (LXX/NT)}, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.

They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.