57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Understand what I say, that the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

But strong food belongs to those that are perfect, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

which teaches me discernment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments.

And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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

yea, if thou criest for understanding and givest thy voice unto intelligence,

to another, the operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:

that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,

Give, therefore, thy slave a hearing heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this thy so great a people?

In the lips of the prudent wisdom is found and is a rod unto the back of him that is void of understanding.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he is discerned by no one.

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

Give me from among you, of your tribes, wise and understanding and expert men, and I will make them the head over you.

Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.

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

The wisdom of the sane is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

And God gave Solomon exceedingly great wisdom and intelligence and magnanimity of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

My son, do not let them depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion,

For they are a Gentile void of counsel, neither is there any intelligence in them.

Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.

and it is he that changes the times and the opportunities; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom unto the wise and knowledge unto those that know understanding:

to know wisdom and chastening; to understand prudent words;

To make an abomination is as sport to the fool, but wisdom is recreation to the man of intelligence.

discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee

They are all plain to him that understands and right to those that have found wisdom.

For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine.

I am thy slave; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.

Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.

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

And in the morning, It will be foul weather today, for the heaven has an aurora and is cloudy. O ye hypocrites, ye know how to make decisions based on the face of the heaven, and regarding the signs of the times are ye unable?

Do not labour to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but the poor that has understanding is wiser than he.

Wisdom appears upon the countenance of him that has understanding, but the eyes of a fool manifest his folly unto the ends of the earth.

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

The heart of the man of understanding acquires wisdom, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Keep them, 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.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of intelligence will draw it out.

Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people with a fearful miracle: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the prudence of their prudent men shall fade away.

I understand more than the elders because I keep thy precepts.

They did not know nor understand; for he has anointed their eyes that they not see and their hearts that they not understand.