24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, (A)you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”

Read full chapter

24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind,(A) Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning(B) is driving you insane.”

Read full chapter

13 And we impart this (A)in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, (B)interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[a]

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are (C)folly to him, and (D)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or interpreting spiritual truths in spiritual language, or comparing spiritual things with spiritual

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom(A) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[a] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(B) but considers them foolishness,(C) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual

23 but we preach Christ (A)crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

Read full chapter

23 but we preach Christ crucified:(A) a stumbling block(B) to Jews and foolishness(C) to Gentiles,

Read full chapter

13 For if we (A)are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

Read full chapter

13 If we are “out of our mind,”(A) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

Read full chapter

10 (A)We are fools for Christ's sake, but (B)you are wise in Christ. (C)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

Read full chapter

10 We are fools for Christ,(A) but you are so wise in Christ!(B) We are weak, but you are strong!(C) You are honored, we are dishonored!

Read full chapter

21 (A)And when (B)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He (C)is out of his mind.”

Read full chapter

21 When his family[a] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:21 Or his associates

11 And (A)I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them (B)blaspheme, and (C)in raging fury against them I (D)persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Read full chapter

11 Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished,(A) and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.

Read full chapter

26 ‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have (A)charge in the house of the Lord (B)over every madman who prophesies, to put him in (C)the stocks and neck irons.

Read full chapter

26 ‘The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the Lord; you should put any maniac(A) who acts like a prophet into the stocks(B) and neck-irons.

Read full chapter

11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, (A)“Is all well? Why did (B)this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”

Read full chapter

11 When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac(A) come to you?”

“You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

Read full chapter

32 Now when they heard of (A)the resurrection of the dead, (B)some mocked. But others said, (C)“We will hear you again about this.”

Read full chapter

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead,(A) some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”

Read full chapter

20 Many of them said, (A)“He has a demon, and (B)is insane; why listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. (C)Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

Read full chapter

20 Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed(A) and raving mad.(B) Why listen to him?”

21 But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon.(C) Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”(D)

Read full chapter

(A)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.

Read full chapter

The days of punishment(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.(E)

Read full chapter

19 Rather they (A)had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about (B)a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. 20 Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I (C)asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.

Read full chapter

19 Instead, they had some points of dispute(A) with him about their own religion(B) and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive. 20 I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges.(C)

Read full chapter