Discern

and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.

and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined Him here in your presence and found Him not guilty of your charges against Him.

If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him

The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

By examining him yourself, you will be able to learn the truth about all our charges against him.”

I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.

to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt;