Bible verses about "insanity" | YLT

¹³ and changeth his behaviour before their eyes, and feigneth himself mad in their hand, and scribbleth on the doors of the gate, and letteth down his spittle unto his beard. ¹⁴ And Achish saith unto his servants, `Lo, ye see a man acting as a madman; why do ye bring him in unto me? ¹⁵ A lack of madmen have I, that ye have brought in this one to act as a madman by me! doth this one come in unto my house?'

¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou—Thou hast been, To us—in generation and generation, ² Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God. ³ Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. ⁵ Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. ⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
⁷ For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, ⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. ¹⁰ Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear—Thy wrath?
¹² To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. ¹³ Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants. ¹⁴ Satisfy us at morn with Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. ¹⁵ Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil. ¹⁶ Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons. ¹⁷ And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

²⁴ and his fame went forth to all Syria, and they brought to him all having ailments, pressed with manifold sicknesses and pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

¹⁵ and saying, `Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

²⁵ and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

¹ `Judge not, that ye may not be judged, <sup>2</sup> for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you. <sup>3</sup> `And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider? ⁴ or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? ⁵ Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. ⁶ `Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned—may rend you.
<sup>7</sup> `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; ⁸ for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. ⁹ `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf—a stone will he present to him? <sup>10</sup> and if a fish he may ask—a serpent will he present to him? <sup>11</sup> if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
<sup>12</sup> `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets. ¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; <sup>14</sup> how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
<sup>15</sup> `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. ¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? ¹⁷ so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire: ²⁰ therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
²¹ `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. <sup>22</sup> Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things? <sup>23</sup> and then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness. <sup>24</sup> `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.' ²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, ²⁹ for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

³⁵ and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;

²⁴ And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

¹⁰ And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the spirit of sadness from God prospereth over Saul, and he prophesieth in the midst of the house, and David is playing with his hand, as day by day, and the javelin is in the hand of Saul,

²¹ and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

²⁰ and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,