Stupidity

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident. — read the full passage →

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge. — read the full passage →

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.

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, — read the full passage →

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 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,

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

and the truth shall make you free.'

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, `Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!' — read the full passage →

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.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

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

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false <FI>is<Fi> his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

A foolish woman <FI>is<Fi> noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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

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

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.

`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →

`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,

Only, fools <FI>are<Fi> the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

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 he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them--they <FI>are<Fi> the heroes, who, from of old, <FI>are<Fi> the men of name.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

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

The wisdom of the prudent <FI>is<Fi> to understand his way, And the folly of fools <FI>is<Fi> deceit.

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And--not a fool in his folly.

`When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets, — read the full passage →

Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false <FI>is<Fi> his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

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.

For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.

O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow--A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

and Esau saith unto Jacob, `Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I <FI>am<Fi> weary;' therefore hath <FI>one<Fi> called his name Edom <FI>Red<Fi> ;

and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung--the filth of man--thou dost bake before their eyes. — read the full passage →

Thy teeth as a row of the shorn ones That have come up from the washing, For all of them are forming twins, And a bereaved one is not among them.

He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me <FI>is<Fi> love,

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

And it cometh to pass after these things that it is declared to Abraham, saying, `Lo, Milcah hath borne, even she, sons to Nahor thy brother: — read the full passage →

and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window--being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long--he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead. — read the full passage →

`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.

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

for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.

`When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it--fallen in a field--it is not known who hath smitten him, — read the full passage →

The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned <FI>with<Fi> knowledge.

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

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

A growling lion, and a ranging bear, <FI>Is<Fi> the wicked ruler over a poor people.

And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

A foolish woman <FI>is<Fi> noisy, Simple, and hath not known what. — read the full passage →

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

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

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

The way of a fool <FI>is<Fi> right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel <FI>is<Fi> wise. — read the full passage →

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --