Bible Verses About Apologetics

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.

Direct passage for contending earnestly for the faith

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Direct passage about confessing the good confession

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:

Bible command to make a defense

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

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Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Encourages a good conscience while being reviled

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

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Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

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And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

Bible passage on explaining and proving from Scripture

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Bible passage on checking teaching against Scripture

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

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Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

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And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

Bible passage on the name Christian at Antioch

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

Bible passage on proving Jesus is the Christ

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Bible passage on apostolic witness to resurrection

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

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O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

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Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

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My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

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Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.

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Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Direct passage about suffering as a Christian without shame

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

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We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

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Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

Direct passage about integrity in speaking

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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