'Arguments' in the Bible
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.
But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.
O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;
Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.
But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.