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
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.

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.

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.

1 Cor. 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Cor. 11:29
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1 Cor. 12:10
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

Heb. 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Alma 32:35
O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect?

D&C 33:1
Behold, I say unto you, my servants Ezra and Northrop, open ye your ears and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, whose word is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, to the dividing asunder of the joints and marrow, soul and spirit; and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

D&C 46:23
And to others the discerning of spirits.

D&C 131:7
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;

Moses 1:27
And it came to pass, as the voice was still speaking, Moses cast his eyes and beheld the earth, yea, even all of it; and there was not a particle of it which he did not behold, discerning it by the Spirit of God.

Moses 1:28
And he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there was not a soul which he beheld not; and he discerned them by the Spirit of God; and their numbers were great, even numberless as the sand upon the sea shore.