A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.

Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another:

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

"Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.

Remind me of what happened! Let's debate! You, prove to me that you are right!

Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.

He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

Immediately Jesus, being fully aware [of their hostility] and knowing in His spirit that they were thinking this, said to them, “Why are you debating and arguing about these things in your hearts?

And he asked the scribes, What do you debate with them?

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

At length they enter'd into a debate, which of them should be the greatest.

And Jesus perceiving the debate in their minds, took a little child and set it by him,

"Suppose ye that I am come to send peace on earth? I tell you, nay: but rather debate.

And they began to debate with one another who then of them it could be who was going to do this.

and he said to them, what is the subject of your debate in the way, and why do you look so sad?

Therefore a debate developed from John's disciples with the Jews about purification.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

Among the mass of the people there was much muttered debate about Him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so: he is imposing on the people."

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia undertook to debate with Stephen,

and he continued to speak courageously in the name of the Lord, and to speak and debate with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they kept trying to murder him.

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

Some of the Epicurean and the Stoic philosophers began to debate with him; and some said, "What is this scraps-of-truth-picker trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities." They said so because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

And when he had so said, there arose a debate between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.

and the Scribes taking part with the Pharisees, grew warm in the debate, and said, "we find no harm in this man; perhaps a spirit or an angel has spoke to him."

And when there arose great debate, the captain fearing lest Paul should have been plucked asunder of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

We have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of debate unto all the Jews throughout the world; And a maintainer of sedition, of the sect of the Nazarenes;

[After he said these things, the Jews departed, while engaging in a prolonged debate among themselves.]

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.

I direct therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath and debate:

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

for when men swear by a superior, the ratifying what they say with an oath, puts an end to all further debate.

Yet Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the Devil in a debate about Moses’ body, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”