12 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

I would lay [my] case {before him}, and I would fill my mouth [with] arguments

Please hear my argument, and listen attentively [to the] pleadings of my lips.

"Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, said to them, "Why are you considering these [things] in your hearts?

And he was speaking and debating with the {Greek-speaking Jews}, but they were trying to do away with him.

Where [is] the wise person? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.