17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not."

and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence."

And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

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

And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By 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 obey his commandments.