Proverbs 3:21
My son, preserve sound judgment and DISCERNment, do not let them out of your sight;
Proverbs 28:11
A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has DISCERNment sees through him.
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.
John 7:24 ESV
Do not judge by appearances, but JUDGE with right judgment.
1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Matthew 10:16 ESV
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so BE WISE as serpents and innocent as doves.
2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Acts 17:11 ESV
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, EXAMINING the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
1 Kings 3:11 ESV
And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to DISCERN what is right,
Discerning what is right is the entire task of moral intelligence and is a lifetime’s work.
Do not presume to have completed that effort.