Bible Verses About Reason
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for reason, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 550 votes, led by Isaiah 1:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Reason
Isaiah 1:1890 votes
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.
James 3:1784 votes
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
1 Peter 3:1561 votes
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Luke 14:28-3243 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
2 Timothy 3:1-526 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Proverbs 16:2525 votes
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Colossians 2:825 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
1 Peter 5:324 votes
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Proverbs 1:723 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Thessalonians 5:2123 votes
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Proverbs 1:2-916 votes
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Acts 17:1715 votes
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
John 3:1614 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Ephesians 4:17-2514 votes
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Colossians 1:914 votes
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Proverbs 14:1211 votes
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Acts 6:9-1011 votes
Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
2 Peter 1:2-811 votes
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Romans 12:1-2110 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Jude 1:310 votes
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
What does the Bible say about reason?
Readers most often cite Isaiah 1:18 on the subject of reason. Across 550 votes, 20 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 3:17, 1 Peter 3:15, Luke 14:28-32. This page lists all 20 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.