Insanity

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Bible verses about “Insanity”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Proverbs 26:18As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
• 1 Samuel 21:13And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
• 1 Samuel 21:14Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
• 1 Samuel 21:15Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
• Deuteronomy 28:28The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
• Zechariah 12:4In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
• Daniel 4:32And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
• Daniel 4:33The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
• Daniel 4:34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
• Mark 3:21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
• John 10:20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
• Acts 26:24And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Acts 26:25But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
• Matthew 4:24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
• Matthew 17:15Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
• 1 Samuel 16:14But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
• 1 Samuel 18:10And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand.