1 Peter 3:15
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear:
Colossians 4:6
Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.
Matthew 10:18-20
And ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the heathen.
Luke 21:14-15
Therefore rest satisfied in your hearts, not to premeditate what apology to make:
Acts 4:8-12
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts 5:29-31
Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 21:39-5
But Paul replied, I am indeed a Jew, a man of Tarsus, of Cilicia, a citizen of no contemptible city: and, I entreat thee, permit me to speak to the people.
Acts 24:25
And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment which is ready to be revealed, Felix being greatly terrified, replied, Go, for the present, I will some time hence take another opportunity of calling for thee.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel,
Colossians 1:23
if ye abide in faith grounded and firm, and never moved aside from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul am a minister.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;
Titus 1:2
in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being;
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and glorying of hope stedfast unto the end.
Hebrews 6:1
WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,
Hebrews 6:18-19
that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;
1 Peter 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:17
And if ye invoke him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning with [jealous] fear:
1 Peter 3:2
being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity.
1 Peter 3:4
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: