14 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

wherefore be not imprudent, but consider what is agreeable to the divine will.

upon which the Lord said to him, you Pharisees won't leave any filth upon the outside of a cup or a platter: while your consciences are abandon'd to rapine, and sensuality. do you stupidly imagine that he, who made the outward man, did not make the inward too?

because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.

foolish as you are, the grain you sow, is not revived except it die.

decline all impertinent barren disputes, since they only serve for contention.

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

but God said to him, thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee: who then shall enjoy what thou hast provided?

but they will be stop'd in their career; for they shall be expos'd to the world for impostors, as those magicians were.

O foolish Galatians, who hath deluded you, you that have had the crucifixion of Jesus Christ represented to your view?

and while they were gone to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready, entred with him into the hall, and the door was shut.

themselves to temptations and snares, and to many foolish noxious passions, which plunge men into ruin and perdition. for the love of money is the root of all evil:

and while they were gone to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready, entred with him into the hall, and the door was shut. afterwards came the other virgins likewise, and cry'd, Lord, Lord, pray let us in. but he answered, I assure you, I know you not.

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred. but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind, he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law.