12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?

So you can tell them by their fruit.

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

When it was full, they dragged it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets and threw the bad away.

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

but whoever obeys his message really has the love of God in perfection in his heart. This is the way we can be sure that we are in union with him;

You can tell the Spirit of God in this way: all inspiration that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in human form comes from God,

We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.