66 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?read more.
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil. O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing: Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it. But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.read more.
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting. Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

I saw among the young men one without sense, Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.read more.
And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house. Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights. For the master of the house is away on a long journey: He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon. With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips. The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all. Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town, Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:read more.
Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.

For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.

A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.

And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut. After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in. But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.

When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;