Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
We be beside
Sober
Bible References
We be beside
2 Corinthians 11:1
Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 12:6
If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.
Acts 26:24
As Paul thus made his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice. "Paul, you are raving mad; your great learning is driving you mad."
1 Corinthians 4:10
For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.
Sober
Acts 26:25
"I am not mad, most noble Festus," said Paul,
Romans 12:3
For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.
For
2 Corinthians 7:12
So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.
Colossians 1:24
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.
2 Timothy 2:10
But God's message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.