68 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.

I will hear what God, LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, and to his sanctified. But let them not turn again to folly.

The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.

Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places. She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words: How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?read more.
Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you. Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded, but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness. Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Thou foolish man, what thou sow is not made alive unless it dies.

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

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

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not: Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevai But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.read more.
Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

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

There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

O God, thou know my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee.

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

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

The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going.

and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.read more.
And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart. She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner. So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him, Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day. Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love. For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey. He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon. With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing. And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call to those who pass by, who go right on their ways:read more.
He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant. But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut.

For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

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

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

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.

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

And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for [the redeemed], the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err [in it].

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared entered in with him for the wedding festivities, and the door was shut. But afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

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

As a dog who returns to his vomit, [is] a fool who repeats his folly.

And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks 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 him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your fol

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other. But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Smite a scoffer, and a simple man will learn prudence. And reprove him who has understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.

When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but [a thing] in the inward part of fools is made known.

They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth,