12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

So you must recognize them by their fruits.

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

which, when it was full, the fishermen drew up on the shore, and sat down and picked out the good fish for their baskets and threw the bad away.

For every tree is known by its fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or gather grapes from a bramble-bush.

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

but whoever practices obedience to His message really has a perfect love of God in his heart. By this we can be sure that we are in union with Him:

In this way you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spiritual utterance which owns that Jesus Christ has come in human form comes from God,

We are children of God. Whoever knows God by experience listens to us; whoever is not a child of God does not listen to us. This is the way to distinguish a true spiritual utterance from one that is false.

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God, by continuing to love God and to obey His commands.