'Discreet' in the Bible
But keep alert at all times [be attentive and ready], praying that you may have the strength and ability [to be found worthy and] to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man [at His coming].”
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,
that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:
It teaches us to reject ungodliness and worldly (immoral) desires, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives [lives with a purpose that reflect spiritual maturity] in this present age,
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- Careful (164 instances)
- Circumspect (4 instances)
- Clever (25 instances)
- Discerning (47 instances)
- Discreet (16 instances)