REASONING

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• Exodus 4:11

  Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

• Exodus 20:5

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 20:11

  for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

• Deuteronomy 12:8

  You shall not do after all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

• Job 13:3

  “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

• Job 13:17

  Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

• Job 13:18

  See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

• Job 13:19

  Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

• Job 13:20

  “Only don’t do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

• Job 13:21

  withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

• Job 13:22

  Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

• Job 13:23

  How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

• Job 13:24

  Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

• Job 13:25

  Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

• Job 13:26

  For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

• Job 13:27

  You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

• Job 13:28

  though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

• Proverbs 14:12

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Isaiah 1:18

  “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

• Isaiah 5:3

  “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

• Isaiah 5:4

  What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

• Isaiah 43:26

  Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

• Daniel 4:36

  At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Micah 6:2

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

• Luke 5:21

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

• Luke 5:22

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

• Luke 20:5

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

• Acts 17:2

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

• Acts 18:4

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

• Acts 18:19

  He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

• Acts 24:25

  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.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:18

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 1:19

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

• 1 Corinthians 1:20

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

• 1 Corinthians 1:21

  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 preaching to save those who believe.

• 1 Corinthians 1:22

  For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

• 1 Corinthians 1:23

  but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

• 1 Corinthians 1:24

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

• 1 Corinthians 1:25

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

• 1 Corinthians 1:26

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

• 1 Corinthians 1:27

  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;

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  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:

• 1 Corinthians 2:1

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:2

  For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

• 1 Corinthians 2:3

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:4

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:5

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 2:7

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

• 1 Corinthians 2:9

  But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• 1 Corinthians 2:10

  But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:11

  For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 2:12

  But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:13

  Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

• 1 Corinthians 10:15

  I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

• 1 Peter 3:15

  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear: