Reasoning
Bible Usage:
- reason used 71 times.
- reasonable used once.
- reasoned used 12 times.
- reasoning used 5 times.
- reasons used twice.
- First Reference: Job 13:6
- Last Reference: Acts 28:29
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
With God
Job 13:3; Job 13:17-28
God reasons with men
Exodus 4:11; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 20:11; Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 5:3-4; Isaiah 43:26; Hosea 4:1; Micah 6:2
Natural understanding
Daniel 4:36
To be applied to religion
1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Peter 3:15
Not a sufficient guide in human affairs
Deuteronomy 12:8; Proverbs 3:5; Proverbs 14:12
Of the Pharisees
Luke 5:21-22; Luke 20:5
Of Paul from the scriptures
Acts 17:2; Acts 18:4; Acts 44:19; Acts 24:25
The gospel cannot be explained by
1 Corinthians 1:18-28; 1 Corinthians 2:1-14
Investigation; Philosophy
RE'ASONING, participle present tense arguing; deducing inferences from premises; debating; discussing.
RE'ASONING, noun The act or process of exercising the faculty of reason; that act or operation of the mind by which new or unknown propositions are deduced from previous ones which are known and evident, or which are admitted or supposed for the sake of argument; argumentation; ratiocination; as fair reasoning; false reasoning; absurd reasoning; strong or weak reasoning The reasonings of the advocate appeared to the court conclusive.