Bible verses about "reason" | Living_Oracles

³ neither as lording it over the heritage of God, but, being patterns to the flock:

²⁸ For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first, by himself, compute the expense, to know whether he have the means to complete it; ²⁹ lest, having laid the foundation, and being unable to finish, he become the derision of all who see it; ³⁰ who will say, This man began to build, but was not able to finish. ³¹ Or what king, going to engage another king, with whom he is at war, does not first consult, by himself, whether he can, with ten thousand men, encounter him who comes against him with twenty thousand; ³² that if he can not, he may, while the other is at a distance, send an embassy to sue for peace.

¹ This, also, know, that in latter days perilous times will come. ² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, defamers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, bargain-breakers, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, haters of good men, ⁴ headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Now, from these, turn away.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be always prepared for giving an answer, with meekness and reverence, to every one who asks of you a reason for the hope which is in you.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is, indeed, first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.