What the Bible says about

Madness

10 references · matched from the Berean Standard Bible text · tap any verse for study tools

“The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,”
Deuteronomy 28:28 BSB
“So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.”
1 Samuel 21:13 BSB
“So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.”
Ecclesiastes 1:17 BSB
“Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?”
Ecclesiastes 2:12 BSB
“I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.”
Ecclesiastes 7:25 BSB
“This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.”
Ecclesiastes 9:3 BSB
“The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.”
Ecclesiastes 10:13 BSB
“On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and every rider with madness. I will keep a watchful eye on the house of Judah, but I will strike with blindness all the horses of the nations.”
Zechariah 12:4 BSB
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