12 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.