12 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case before God.

Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

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

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

Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

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

And instantly knowing in His spirit that they reasoned so within themselves, He said to them, Why do you reason these things in your heart?

And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and argued with the Hellenists. But they seized him in order to kill him.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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

When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.