12 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.

Ye will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

So then by their fruits ye will know them.

Either allow the tree to be good, and it's fruit good; or shew the tree to be corrupt, and it's fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by it's fruit.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doth not practise righteousness, and he who loveth not his brother, is not of God:

which, when it was full, they dragged to the shore, and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, and threw out the bad.

for every tree is known by it's fruit; for men do not gather figs from thorns, nor grapes from a bramble.

if ye have mutual love to each other.

But whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: and by this we know that we are in Him.

By this ye may know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ, who is come in the flesh, is of God:

We are of God: he, that knoweth God, heareth us; but he, who is not of God, heareth not us. By this we know the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and in this we know that we love the children of God, since we love God and keep his commandments.