Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'discern' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'discern' in the standard works and contain 17.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 16:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 12:56 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 4 16
Gen. 2 1 3
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 2 1 3
Ezra 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Prov. 0 1 1
Eccl. 0 1 1
Ezek. 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 5 4 9
BM 3 1 4
DC 3 3 6
PGP 0 2 2
TOTAL 23 14 37

Gen. 27:23
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

Gen. 31:32
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

Gen. 38:25
When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

2 Sam. 14:17
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.

2 Sam. 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

1 Kgs. 3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

1 Kgs. 3:11
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

1 Kgs. 20:41
And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

Ezra 3:13
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.

Job 4:16
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Prov. 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Eccl. 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Ezek. 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Mal. 3:18
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.