Bible verses about "debating" | NSB

¹³ It is foolishness and shame to answer a matter before you hear it.

⁷ We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages (generations and human entities) for our glory. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age knew (understood) for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord (esteemed Master). ⁹ It is written: »Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him.« (Isaiah 64:4)

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted: »God tempts me.« God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one. ¹⁴ Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).

² preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

¹⁴ Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to argue about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

⁹ Whoever pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God! He who dwells in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ Do not receive anyone into your house who comes to you and does not bring this teaching. Give him no greeting!

³⁴ »I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵ »All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.«

¹ Let me tell you how hard I worked for you, for the people in Laodicea, and for all others who do not personally know me. ² I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God’s secret, which is Christ himself. ³ In him is concealed all the hidden treasures of God’s wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ I tell you this: Do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be. ⁵ Even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit (mental disposition). I am glad when I see the resolute firmness with which you stand together in your faith in Christ. ⁶ You have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord. Now walk (live) in union with him. ⁷ Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving. ⁸ See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ. ⁹ The fullness of divine nature lives in Christ’s bodily form. (Greek: theotes: essence and nature of God) (Only the Son of God could have divine attributes, the inherited qualities from the Father) ¹⁰ You are made full (complete) (perfect) (mature) in him. He is the head over all government and authority. ¹¹ You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ. ¹² You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ He blotted out the bond written in ordinances. It was against us and was contrary to us. He has taken it out of the way. He nailed it to the stake. ¹⁵ He disarmed the rulers and authorities! He made a public display of them triumphing over them. ¹⁶ Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, grows with the growth from God. ²⁰ If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances: ²¹ »Do not handle. Do not taste. Do not touch.« ²² These are the precepts and doctrines of men. ²³ These have, indeed, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body. But these are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹⁶ God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)

⁹ Some were obstinate and publicly maligned The Way before the crowds. He departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

¹ Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking.

⁹ You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

¹⁵ Sanctify the Christ as Lord (kurios: master) in your hearts. Always be ready to answer every man who asks you a reason for your hope, yet with meekness (mildness) and respect! ¹⁶ Keep a good conscience. When you are spoken against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.