18 occurrences

'Discern' in the Bible

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillRobbing GodsIn Men's Presence

When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these -- the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

Verse ConceptsDaybreakNot Recognising PeopleUntil DaybreakDo Not Tell

Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfKnowledge Of Good And EvilAngels, DescriptionThe Angel Of GodGod Be With YouLike Angels

I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesKnowledge Of Good And EvilVoicesNatural DeafnessSingers

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfHeart, HumanWisdom, Human ImportanceWisdom, Source Of HumanKnowledgeDiscerning God's ThingsPeople Involved In JudgementPay Attention To God!Making DecisionsDiscernmentDecision Making

God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

Verse ConceptsGetting RichDiscernmentNatural Disasters

so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Discriminationdistance

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

Verse ConceptsVoices

Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfLipsWhat Sin?

that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesUnfaithfulness, To GodCorrupt PriestsClean And UncleanSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsLack Of Holiness

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesTeachersMan DifferentiatingClean And UncleanTeaching The Way Of GodDiscernment

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

Verse ConceptsSevenNames And Titles For ChristMessianic Prophecies40 To 50 YearsCity SquaresChrist's OriginRebuilding JerusalemWater ChannelOvercoming Hard TimesStaying Strong During Hard Timesrebuilding

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forCityLack Of DiscernmentImmaturityAnimal LifeWorldlinessAnimals, Care ForAnimals, God's Care OfOne Hundred Thousand And MoreGod Will Show MercyIgnorant Of Factsempathyjonah

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.

Verse ConceptsMan DifferentiatingDiscernmentServing GodServing The ChurchBeing Unique

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