insanity

⁸Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.

²⁰Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?”

¹⁰Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.

²¹And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: “Because he has gone mad.”

³⁵Then they went out to see what was happening, and they came to Jesus. And they found the man, from whom the demons had departed, sitting at his feet, clothed as well as in a sane mind, and they were afraid.

¹⁰Then, on the next day, the evil spirit from God assailed Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand, just as at every other time. And Saul held a lance in his hand.

¹“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. ²For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you. ³And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye? ⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye? ⁵Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. ⁶Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.

¹⁸For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach. ¹⁹For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.

²⁵And Paul said: “I am not insane, most excellent Festus, but rather I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

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.”

²⁸Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

³This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.

¹³And he altered his mouth before them, and he slipped down between their hands. And he stumbled against the doors of the gate. And his spit flowed down his beard. ¹⁴And Achish said to his servants: “You saw that the man is insane. Why did you bring him to me? ¹⁵Or do we have need of those who are mad, so that you would bring in this one, to behave madly in my presence? How did this man get into my house?”

²⁴And reports of him went out to all of Syria, and they brought to him all those who had maladies, those who were in the grasp of various sicknesses and torments, and those who were in the hold of demons, and the mentally ill, and paralytics. And he cured them.

¹⁵And I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.”

¹A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation. ²Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God. ³And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men. ⁴For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night, ⁵which was held for nothing: so their years shall be. ⁶In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.