John 10:20

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?