12 Bible Verses about Reasoned Argument

Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

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

And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, 'Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,

where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

and again, 'The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;