Bible Verses About Reasoning

ADONAI answered him, "Who gives a person a mouth? Who makes a person dumb or deaf, keen-sighted or blind? Isn't it I, ADONAI?

You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, ADONAI your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

For in six days, ADONAI made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why ADONAI blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself. v

You will not do things the way we do them here today, where everyone does whatever in his own opinion seems right;

However, it's Shaddai I want to speak with; I want to prove my case to God.

"Listen closely, then, to my words; pay attention to what I am saying.

Here, now, I have prepared my case; I know I am in the right.

If anyone can contend with me, I will be quiet and die!

"Only grant two things to me, God; then I won't hide myself from your face -

take your hand away from me, and don't let fear of you frighten me.

Then, if you call, I will answer. Or let me speak, and you, answer me!

How many crimes and sins have I committed? Make me know my transgression and sin.

Why do you hide your face and think of me as your enemy?

Do you want to harass a wind-driven leaf? do you want to pursue a dry straw?

Is this why you draw up bitter charges against me and punish me for the faults of my youth?

You put my feet in the stocks, you watch me closely wherever I go, you trace out each footprint of mine

though [my body] decays like something rotten or like a moth-eaten garment.

Trust in ADONAI with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.

There can be a way which seems right to a person, but at its end are the ways of death.

"Come now," says ADONAI, "let's talk this over together. Even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; even if they are red as crimson, they will be like wool.

Now, citizens of Yerushalayim and people of Y'hudah, judge between me and my vineyard.

What more could I have done for my vineyard that I haven't already done in it? So why, when I expected good grapes, did it produce sour, wild grapes?

Remind me when we're in court together - tell your side, make the case that you are right.

"It was at that moment that my understanding came back to me; and for the sake of the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor also came back to me. My advisers and lords sought me out, I was re-established in my kingdom, and to my previous greatness even more was added.

Hear the word of ADONAI, people of Isra'el! For ADONAI has a grievance against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no faithful love or knowledge of God in the land;