1 Peter 3:15

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

Colossians 4:6

Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.

Isaiah 29:23

For in his seeing his children, the work of my hand, in his midst, they shall consecrate my name, and consecrate the Holy One of Jacob, and they shall fear the God of Israel.

Numbers 20:12

And Jehovah will say to Moses, and to Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to consecrate me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, for this, ye shall not bring in this gathering to the land which I gave to them.

1 Samuel 12:7

And now, stand ye, and I will judge you before Jehovah, all the justices of Jehovah which he did with you and with your fathers.

Psalm 119:46

And I will speak in thy testimonies before kings, and I shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 5:16

And Jehovah of armies shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God consecrated in justice.

Isaiah 41:21

Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:

Jeremiah 26:12-16

And Jeremiah will say to all the chiefs and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words which ye heard.

Daniel 3:16-18

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word.

Amos 7:14-17

And Amos will answer and say to Amaziah, I am no prophet, and I not the son of a prophet; for I a herdsman, and gathering figs of the sycamores.

Matthew 10:18-20

And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Luke 21:14-15

Set therefore in your hearts, not to practise beforehand to justify yourselves:

Acts 4:8-12

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Acts 5:29-31

And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 21:39-5

And Paul said, I am truly a man a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen of no undistinguished city: and I beseech of thee to give way for me to speak to the people.

Acts 24:25

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

Colossians 1:5

By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;

Colossians 1:23

If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

2 Timothy 2:25-26

In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

Titus 1:2

In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;

Hebrews 3:6

And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Hebrews 6:18-19

That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

1 Peter 1:3-4

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:

1 Peter 3:2

Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.

1 Peter 3:4

But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price.

Numbers 27:14

As ye rebelled against my mouth in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the assembly to consecrate me at the waters before their eyes, these the Waters of Strife, of Kadish of the desert of Zin.

Colossians 1:27

To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

General references

Bible References

And be

Psalm 119:46
And I will speak in thy testimonies before kings, and I shall not be ashamed.
Jeremiah 26:12
And Jeremiah will say to all the chiefs and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words which ye heard.
Daniel 3:16
Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word.
Amos 7:14
And Amos will answer and say to Amaziah, I am no prophet, and I not the son of a prophet; for I a herdsman, and gathering figs of the sycamores.
Matthew 10:18
And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
Luke 21:14
Set therefore in your hearts, not to practise beforehand to justify yourselves:
Acts 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts 5:29
And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 21:39
And Paul said, I am truly a man a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen of no undistinguished city: and I beseech of thee to give way for me to speak to the people.
Acts 22:1
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence to you.
Colossians 4:6
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
2 Timothy 2:25
In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

A reason

1 Samuel 12:7
And now, stand ye, and I will judge you before Jehovah, all the justices of Jehovah which he did with you and with your fathers.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 41:21
Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:
Acts 24:25
And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

The hope

1 Peter 1:3
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Colossians 1:5
By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;
Hebrews 3:6
And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

With

1 Peter 3:2
Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.
2 Timothy 2:25
In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

General references

Proverbs 26:16
The slothful one is wise in his eyes more than seven turning back a reason.