What Does the Bible Say About How To Defend Your Faith?

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

James 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

1 Corinthians 3:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

26 Bible Verses about How To Defend Your Faith

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes