68 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

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

And to 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 hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to 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 endureth for ever.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?read more.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Whoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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

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

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth 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 judgment of their God.

And the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?

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

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not vivified except it die:

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they gender contentions.

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 ye not me? saith the 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 its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.read more.
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season: he reserveth to us the appointed weeks of harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

He that trusteth 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 hearkeneth to counsel is wise.

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

But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

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

A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly will be manifest to 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 believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his 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 subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him, I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, 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 solace ourselves with loves. For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him. He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways:read more.
Whoever is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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

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

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

And while they were going 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 without 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 they that will be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame to him.

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable 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 maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

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

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, 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 those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

And while they were going 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 to you, I know you not.

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

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

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

Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer 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 ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior towards 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 scorner and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth 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 bringeth his mother to shame.

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

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath 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 hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law: