12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But 'solid food' is for Christians of mature faith--those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.

By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

Hence it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such men.

You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by it's fruits that a tree is known.

By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

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

For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.

It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God--All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God;

We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.