12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

"By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles?

"Hence it is by their fruit you will know them.

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

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

"When it was full they hauled it upon the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets, but threw the worthless fish away.

"You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

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

and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

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

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

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