For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
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?"
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;
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 the LORD, your God, be with you.'"
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?
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
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.
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.
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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.
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.
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."
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
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?"
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
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."
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