68 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] 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 the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures forever.

Wisdom cries aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open square: She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying, How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?read more.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.

Whosoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is senseless.

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

Therefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

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

And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You fools, did not he that made that which is outside make that which is within also?

Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die:

But foolish and ignorant questions avoid, knowing that they do produce strifes.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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

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

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

He that trusts in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.

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

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.

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

Every prudent man deals with knowledge: but a fool lays open his folly.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well where he is going.

And 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, in the black and dark night:read more.
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with colored spreads, with fine linen 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 delight ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey: He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him. He goes after her immediately, 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 knows not that it is for his life.

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

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been openly set forth, crucified among you?

A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity 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 heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the recompense of fools.

He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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

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

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

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

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

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.

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 it shall be for others: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech you, lay not the sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

Therefore take unto you now 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 will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;

Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Foolishness is bound 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 brings his mother to shame.

O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.