57 Bible Verses about Discernment

Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.

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

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

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 the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;

Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this your so great a people?

In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

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

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

You hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

And God said unto him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life; neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies; but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

The wisdom of the prudent 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, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

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

My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

A reproof enters more into a wise man 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 unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:

They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.

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

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

I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Then shall you understand righteousness, and justice, and equity; yea, every good path.

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

He that 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 sky is red and overcast. O you hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times?

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that has understanding will find him out.

Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall stumble in them.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

He takes away the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

The heart of the prudent 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 nations, which 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 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: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.