Bible Verses About Reasoning

Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the Torah scholar of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the proclaiming to save those who believe.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

but we proclaim Messiah crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Yeshua the Messiah, and him crucified.

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

My speech and my proclaiming were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,