22 Bible Verses about Discernment

Reflect upon what I say; the Lord will always help you to understand.

But 'solid food' is for Christians of mature faith--those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.

And what I pray for is this--that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment,

For Scripture says-'I will bring the philosophy of the philosophers to nought, and the shrewdness of the shrewd I will make of no account.'

To another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues'; to another the power to interpret 'tongues.'

Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ,

But the man with spiritual insight is able to understand everything, although he himself is understood by no one.

Hypocrites! You know how to judge of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you cannot judge of this time?

And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may possess that deeper knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.

But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.

For the man who eats and drinks brings a judgment upon himself by his eating and drinking, when he does not discern the body.

Of preachers two or three should speak, and the rest should weigh well what is said.

But in the morning you say 'To-day it will be stormy, for the sky is as red as fire and threatening.' You learn to read the sky; yet you are unable to read the signs of the times!]

The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.