The schemes of a fool are sinful; everyone detests a mocker.
Parallel translations
- WEB The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
- KJV The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
- BSB A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.
- NKJV The devising of foolishness is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
- NASB The devising of foolishness is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to humanity.
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Quick answer
Foolish scheming is sin, and the mocker is detested by others.
Overview
Even the plans and devices of folly are sinful, not harmless, and the scoffer becomes repugnant to people. This ties folly directly to moral guilt rather than mere ignorance. The mocker, who scorns wisdom and correction, stands opposed to God, who gives grace to the humble but resists the proud (James 4:6).
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- 2 Cor 10:5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
- Prov 24:8One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
- Prov 29:8Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
- Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
- Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Matt 9:4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
- Prov 22:10Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
- Ps 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
- Prov 23:7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
- Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
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