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100 Bible Verses about Foolish Things

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Acts 27:1-44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. ...

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Titus 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Corinthians 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.

Proverbs 24:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

Proverbs 23:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Proverbs 17:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.

2 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

1 Corinthians 9:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 6:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...

1 Corinthians 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Romans 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ...

Luke 24:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Luke 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Matthew 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

Matthew 19:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 59:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”

Isaiah 22:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Song of Solomon 2:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. ...

Proverbs 30:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Proverbs 30:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Proverbs 27:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

Proverbs 26:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

Proverbs 26:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool.

Proverbs 26:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 26:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

Proverbs 26:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Proverbs 26:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Proverbs 24:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 19:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 17:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 17:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 15:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Proverbs 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.

Proverbs 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Proverbs 14:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

Proverbs 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Proverbs 12:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Proverbs 11:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 10:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Proverbs 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

Proverbs 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.

Proverbs 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

Proverbs 1:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Psalm 94:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

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