Crazy

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Then Jehu came out to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.”

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

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

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. — read the full passage →

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”

Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.”

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!” — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, ‘Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.’