1 Peter 3:15
but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts: being always ready for an answer to every one asking you a reason for the hope which is in you, but with meekness and fear:
Colossians 4:6
Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.
Matthew 10:18-20
and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles.
Luke 21:14-15
Place it in your hearts, not to premeditate your defense:
Acts 4:8-12
Then Peter being full of the Holy Spirit said to them, Ye rulers of the people and elders,
Acts 5:29-31
But Peter and the apostles responding said, It behooves us to obey God rather than men.
Acts 24:25
And he reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the coming judgment, Felix, being alarmed, responded, Go thy way for this time; and having received an opportunity, I will call for thee:
Colossians 1:5
on account of the hope which awaits you in the heavens, which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
Colossians 1:23
if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,
Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ was as a son, over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and rejoicing of hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried to perfection; not again laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 6:18-19
that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,
1 Peter 1:3-4
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call upon the Father, the One judging without respect of persons according to the work of each, pass the time of your sojourn with fear,
1 Peter 3:2
beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:
1 Peter 3:4
but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory: