7 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

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

At once perceiving by His spirit that they were reasoning within themselves, Jesus asked them, "Why do you thus argue in your minds?

and speaking fearlessly in the name of the Lord. And he often talked with the Hellenists and had discussions with them.

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

And again, "The Lord takes knowledge of the reasonings of the wise--how useless they are."

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.