Foolish

Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things--with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist. — read the full passage →

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching according to piety, — read the full passage →

A treasure to be desired, and oil, <FI>Is<Fi> in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what <FI>is<Fi> the will of the Lord,

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him--even thou. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth <FI>his<Fi> going.

The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

The way of a fool <FI>is<Fi> right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel <FI>is<Fi> wise.

To the Overseer. --`On a disease.' --An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'

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

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare <FI>it<Fi> , because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Remember this--an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

`And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the prophets who are foolish, Who are going after their own spirit, And they have seen nothing.

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, <FI>Is<Fi> one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end--he is a fool.

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities <FI>is<Fi> the tree itself.

For my people <FI>are<Fi> foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons <FI>are<Fi> they, yea, they <FI>are<Fi> not intelligent, Wise <FI>are<Fi> they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

The thought of folly <FI>is<Fi> sin, And an abomination to man <FI>is<Fi> a scorner.

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. — read the full passage →

A provocation to his father <FI>is<Fi> a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools <FI>is<Fi> folly.

The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous <FI>is<Fi> the sinner's wealth.

A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

To execute inventions <FI>is<Fi> as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

O God, Thou--Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and as an enemy count <FI>him<Fi> not, but admonish ye <FI>him<Fi> as a brother;

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Not good <FI>is<Fi> your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven? — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

also we--we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

where <FI>is<Fi> the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.

for he who is saying to him, `Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.