Bible Verses about “debating”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.”

“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:”

“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”

“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”

“preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.”

“Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,”

“having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.”

“but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”

“which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.”

“For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,”

“As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,”

“If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,”

“wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;”

“If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,”

“Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

“rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.”

“"Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"”

“(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?”

“Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,”

“and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.”

“He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.”

“and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;”

“having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”

“For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.”

“having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”

“that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,”

“in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;”

“in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.”

“You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,”

“Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.”

“For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;”

“Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.”

“But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.”