crazy
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20Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?”
4that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
13At the beginning of his words is foolishness, and at the end of his talk is a most grievous error.
4then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions:
13For if we are excessive in mind, it is for God; but if we are sober, it is for you.
24While he was speaking these things and presenting his defense, Festus said with a loud voice: “Paul, you are insane! Too much studying has turned you to insanity.”
23If then, the entire Church were to gather together as one, and if all were to speak in tongues, and then ignorant or unbelieving persons were to enter, would they not say that you were insane?
33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.
25And Paul said: “I am not insane, most excellent Festus, but rather I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God, 2which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures, 3about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh, 4the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ, 5through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, 6from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:
29then he who slept with her shall give to the father of the girl fifty shekels of silver, and he shall have her as a wife, because he has humiliated her. He cannot dismiss her, throughout all the days of his life.
15But they said to her, “You are crazy.” But she reaffirmed that this was so. Then they were saying, “It is his angel.”
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
11Then Jehu went out to the servants of his lord. And they said to him: “Is everything well? Why has this insane man come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the man, and what he said.”
26‘The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada, the priest, so that you would be the ruler in the house of the Lord over every man who raves and prophesies, to send him to the stocks and to prison.