62 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent. But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,read more.
so that no flesh may boast before God. But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdomread more.
but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness. But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.

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.

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because thou have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on LORD thy God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of thy hand. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceedingly many? Yet, because thou relied on LORD, he delivered them into thy hand. For the eyes of LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. In this thou have done foolishly, for from henceforth thou shall have wars.

The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How will ye say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of ancient kings? Where then are thy wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what LORD of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.

Woe to the rebellious sons, says LORD, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

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

A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

And he said to them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets spoke.

Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Professing to be wise, they became foolish, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless. And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.read more.
Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.

And Samuel said to Saul, Thou have done foolishly. Thou have not kept the commandment of LORD thy God, which he commanded thee. For now LORD would have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever,

And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foo

And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly.

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

The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me, because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.read more.
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.

He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise hearkens to counsel.

I have spread out my hands all the day to a {disobedient and (LXX/NT)} rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, for they will not hearken to me. For all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.

Go into the presence of a foolish man, and thou shall not perceive the lips of knowledge.

The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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

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

But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness. Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

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

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

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.