Topic
Reason; Reasonable; Reasoning
19 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 17:11ISBE
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
- Deuteronomy 28:47ISBE
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
- Judges 5:22ISBE
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- 1 Samuel 12:7ISBE
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
- 1 Kings 9:15ISBE
¶ And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- Job 13:3ISBE
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
- Job 15:3ISBE
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- Job 20:2ISBE
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- Job 23:7ISBE
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- Proverbs 26:16ISBE
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
- Isaiah 1:18ISBE
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- Wisdom of Solomon 17:12ISBE
For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.
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- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 37:16 ISBE
- Luke 3:15 ISBE
- Luke 12:17 ISBE
- Acts 17:17 ISBE
- Acts 18:14 ISBE
- Romans 12:1 ISBE
- 1 Peter 3:15 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 19 references
re'-z'n, re'-z'n-a-b'l, re'-z'n-ing (yakhach, etc.; logos, dialogizomai, -ismos, etc.): "Reason" with related terms, has a diversity of meanings, representing a large number of Hebrew and Greek words and phrases. In the sense of "cause" or "occasion" it stands in 1Ki 9:15 for dabhar, "a word" (the Revised Version margin "account"), but in most cases renders prepositional forms as "from," "with," "because of," "for the sake," etc. As the ground or argument for anything, it is the translation of ta`am (Pr 26:16, the Revised Version margin "answers discreetly"), of yakhach, as in Isa 1:18, "Come now, and let us reason together" (compare Job 13:3; 15:3); in 1Sa 12:7, the word is shaphaT, the Revised Version (British and American) "that I may plead," etc. The principal Greek words for "reason," "reasoning," are those given above. The Christian believer is to be ready to give a reason (logos) for the hope that is in him (1Pe 3:15 the King James Version). "Reason" as a human faculty or in the abstract sense appears in Apocrypha in The Wisdom of Solomon 17:12 (logismos); Ecclesiasticus 37:16, "Let reason (logos) go before every enterprise," the Revised Version (British and American) "be the beginning of every work." In Ac 18:14, "reason would" is literally, kata logon, "according to reason"; in Ro 12:1, for "reasonable (logikos) service," the Revised Version (British and American) has "spiritual," and in the margin "Greek `belonging to the reason.' " In the Revised Version (British and American) "reason," etc., occurs much oftener than in the King James Version (compare Le 17:11; De 28:47; Jud 5:22; Job 20:2; 23:7, etc.; Lu 3:15; 12:17; Ac 17:17, etc.).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.