Idiot

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

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

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

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

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

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

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

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.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing. — read the full passage →

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

Please don’t let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn’t see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

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.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a thing ought not to be done.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

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.

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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

“‘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.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.”

The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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

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.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

“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.”

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor. — read the full passage →

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

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

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.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.