12 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

"Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips' contentions.

Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, "Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

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

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

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.