The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean."

In the Law it says, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this nation, and not even then will they listen to me, says the Lord."

So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.

As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,