FOOL

Passages on this topic · 83

• Psalms 5:5

  The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

• Psalms 53:1

  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David. 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.

• Psalms 74:18

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

• Psalms 74:19

  Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

• Psalms 74:20

  Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

• Psalms 74:21

  Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

• Psalms 74:22

  Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

• Psalms 107:17

  Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

• Proverbs 1:7

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

• Proverbs 1:22

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

• Proverbs 3:35

  The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

• Proverbs 9:6

  Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

• Proverbs 9:7

  He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

• Proverbs 9:8

  Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

• Proverbs 9:13

  The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

• Proverbs 9:14

  She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

• Proverbs 9:15

  To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 10:1

  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

• Proverbs 10:8

  The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

• Proverbs 10:10

  One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

• Proverbs 10:13

  Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

• Proverbs 10:14

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

• Proverbs 10:18

  He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

• Proverbs 10:23

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

• Proverbs 14:1

  Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

• Proverbs 14:7

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

• Proverbs 14:8

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

• Proverbs 14:9

  Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

• Proverbs 14:15

  A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

• Proverbs 15:7

  The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

• Proverbs 15:20

  A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

• Proverbs 15:21

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

• Proverbs 17:24

  Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

• Proverbs 17:25

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

• Proverbs 18:2

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

• Proverbs 18:6

  A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

• Proverbs 18:7

  A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

• Proverbs 20:3

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

• Proverbs 21:20

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

• Proverbs 26:3

  A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

• Proverbs 26:4

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

• Proverbs 26:5

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

• Proverbs 26:6

  One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.

• Proverbs 26:7

  Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

• Proverbs 26:8

  As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

• Proverbs 26:9

  Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

• Proverbs 26:10

  As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.

• Proverbs 26:11

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

• Proverbs 26:12

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Proverbs 29:9

  If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

• Proverbs 29:11

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

• Ecclesiastes 4:5

  The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

• Ecclesiastes 7:9

  Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

• Ecclesiastes 10:11

  If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

• Ecclesiastes 10:12

  The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

  The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

• Ecclesiastes 10:14

  A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

• Ecclesiastes 10:15

  The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

• Matthew 7:26

  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.

• Matthew 7:27

  The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell — and great was its fall.”

• Matthew 25:1

  “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

• Matthew 25:2

  Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

• Matthew 25:3

  Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

• Matthew 25:4

  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

• Matthew 25:5

  Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

• Matthew 25:6

  But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

• Matthew 25:7

  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

• Matthew 25:8

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

• Matthew 25:9

  But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

• Matthew 25:10

  While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

• Matthew 25:11

  Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

• Matthew 25:12

  But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

• Matthew 25:13

  Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

• Luke 12:16

  He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

• Luke 12:17

  He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

• Luke 12:18

  He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 12:19

  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’

• Luke 12:20

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.