1 Peter 3:15
and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,
Colossians 4:6
Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.
Matthew 10:18-20
and you shall be brought before governors, and kings, for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations.
Luke 21:14-15
Settle it in your minds, therefore, not to premeditate what defense you shall make,
Acts 4:8-12
Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
Acts 5:29-31
And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.
Acts 21:39-5
And Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of you, permit me to speak to the people.
Acts 24:25
And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.
Colossians 1:5
on account of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the true word of the gospel
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,
Titus 1:2
for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope.
Hebrews 6:1
Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,
Hebrews 6:18-19
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,
1 Peter 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,
1 Peter 3:2
seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God].
1 Peter 3:4
but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,