12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.

You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Therefore you shall know them perfectly by their fruits.

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

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

which, when it was filled, drawing up on the shore, and sitting down, they gathered the good into baskets, and threw the bad away.

For every tree is known by its own fruit: for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape-bunch from the bramble.

in this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you may have divine love one with another.

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

We are of God: the one knowing 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.

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