17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

Isaac said to Jacob: Please come closer. Let me touch you. Are you really Esau?

But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.

They took the robe to their father and said: We found this. Does it belong to your son?

Then watch where it goes. If it goes up the road to its own country toward Beth Shemesh, then this disaster is Jehovah's doing. But if not, we will know it was not his hand that struck us, but what happened to us was an accident.

To keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask: Are you an Ephraimite? If he said: No, they would tell him to say Shibboleth. But he would say Sibboleth, because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.

By their fruits you will know them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. The fruit a tree produces provides its reputation.

Moses said: This is how you will know that Jehovah sent me to do all these things and that it wasn't my idea: If these men die a natural death like all other people Jehovah has not sent me. But if Jehovah does something totally new, if the ground opens up, swallows them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive to their graves; then you will know that these men have treated Jehovah with contempt.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.

They drew it up on the beach when it was full. They gathered the good into containers and threw away the bad.

The identity of a tree is made clear by the fruit it produces. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble.

All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

Whoever obeys his Word; the love of God is made perfect (complete) (mature) in him. By this we know that we are in union with him.

Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.

We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle (spirit) of truth, and the principle (spirit) of deception (error).

This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.