1 Corinthians 2:14
The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.
1 Corinthians 1:18
Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.
Jude 1:19
These are the people who set up divisions and distinctions, sensuous creatures, destitute of the Spirit.
Matthew 13:11-17
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
1 Corinthians 15:44
sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."
John 3:3-6
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."
John 5:44
How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?
John 8:51-52
Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."
1 Corinthians 15:46
but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.
James 3:15
That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;
John 6:44-45
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
John 8:43
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.
John 10:20
A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?"
John 10:26-27
because you do not belong to my sheep.
John 12:37
Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
John 14:26
but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.
John 15:26
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;
John 16:8-15
And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:
Acts 16:14
Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').
Acts 17:32
But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
Acts 18:15
But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."
Acts 25:19
The questions at issue referred to their own religion and to a certain Jesus who had died. Paul said he was alive.
Acts 26:24-25
When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane."
Romans 8:5-8
For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:23
but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received the Spirit ??not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us.
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
1 John 2:20
Now, you have been anointed by the holy One, and you all possess knowledge.
1 John 2:27
but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie ??remain in him, as it has taught you to do.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.