Foolish

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

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

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. — read the full passage →

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? — read the full passage →

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.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

They didn’t repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.