17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

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

And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

And watch. If it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done to us this great evil, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are thou an Ephraimite? If he said, No, then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth, and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right, then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two

From their fruits ye will know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

So then from their fruits ye will know them.

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.

And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that LORD has sent me to do all these works, for [it is] not of my own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then LORD has not sent me. But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

which, when it was full, after dragging to the shore, having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, but they cast out the useless.

For each tree is known from its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they harvest grapes from a bramble bush.

By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is fully perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God,

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.