15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.

I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.

To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.

What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

For the foolish, when they took their torches, did not provide themselves with oil;

"'Give us some of your oil,' said the foolish ones to the wise, 'for our torches are going out.'

Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is 'courageous' --I speak in mere folly--I also am courageous.

If however I should choose to boast, I should not be a fool for so doing, for I should be speaking the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should be led to estimate me more highly than what his own eyes attest, or more highly than what he hears from my lips.

But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."