Bible Verses about Discernment, Spiritual Discernment, Using Discernment – Scripture Quotes & Passages

Bible Verses about Discernment, Spiritual Discernment, Using Discernment – Scripture Quotes & Passages. Explore a list of Powerful Bible Verses & Scriptures about Discernment, Spiritual Discernment and Using Discernment as we mature spiritually, i.e. as we grow in our daily walk with God.

What does the Bible say about Discernment? What does the Bible say about Spiritual Discernment, Discernment of Spirits, & The gift of Discernment?

Join us as we find out What the Bible says about Discernment, Why Spiritual Discernment is so important, Developing Discernment (How to be spiritually discerning, How to be discerning, & How to be discerning in spirit, by God’s grace), and finally, Using Discernment. Please scroll down to the end for more helpful notes, Scriptures & Bible Verses about Discerning God’s will & Discerning God’s voice.

Bible Verses about Discernment

We must not be spiritually naïve, believing or following everything that comes our way.
1 John 4:1, ESV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Why should we have discernment? Why is spiritual discernment so important?
So that we may know what is right, and be “pure and blameless for the day of Christ.” Not having or not using discernment will quickly get us into trouble spiritually.

Philippians 1:9-10, ESV And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Colossians 2:8, ESV See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

2 Peter 3:17, NIV Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.

Bible Verses about Spiritual Discernment – Developing Discernment

How to develop discernment? How to be spiritually discerning?

How to be Discerning in Spirit
We should ask God to give us discernment in everything we do
1 Kings 3:9, ESV Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil…

Jeremiah 33:3, NKJV Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
Bible Verses about the Power of Prayer

We should study the Word of God regularly and develop the excellent habit of communicating with God through the day, asking God to continually fill us with His Holy Spirit. As we walk with God, we must trust God and put what we learn into practice, by His grace. God will lead us, teach us, and grow us every day as we continually trust him. As we continue to grow in God, we will learn to know what pleases God, by the power of His Holy Spirit working in us, teaching us, and reminding us of what we have learned.

1 Corinthians 2:14, NIV The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Hebrews 5:14, ESV But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 4:12, ESV For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Romans 12:2, NLT Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
John 14:26, ESV But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
2 Timothy 2:15, NKJV Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Colosisans 1:9-10, NLT …We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

Bible Verses about Walking with God, Bible Verses about Honoring God,
Bible Verses about God’s will, Trusting God’s Plan

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God wants us to be spiritually discerning. God does not want us to be confused, He wants us to have clarity of mind. God is not a God of confusion or disorder. Our God is a God of order and peace.
1 Corinthians 14:33a, ESV For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
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