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:
A reason
Bible References
And be
Matthew 10:18
and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles.
Luke 21:14
Place it in your hearts, not to premeditate your defense:
Acts 4:8
Then Peter being full of the Holy Spirit said to them, Ye rulers of the people and elders,
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles responding said, It behooves us to obey God rather than men.
Acts 22:1
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear now my apology unto you.
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.
2 Timothy 2:25
in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,
A reason
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:
The hope
1 Peter 1:3
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,
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,
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,
With
1 Peter 3:2
beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:
2 Timothy 2:25
in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,