Bible Verses About Reasoning

Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.

And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?

But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe in him?

And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them. And for three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures:

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.

For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom.

But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power:

That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: