Quotes About Discernment

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

and do not give the devil a foothold.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lordís will is.

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

Do not treat prophecies with contempt,

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

Abstain from every form of evil.

not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.

Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.