63 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:read more.
So that no flesh might have glory before God. But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy: So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:read more.
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands. For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings? Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt. The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise; Making good use of the time, because the days are evil. For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled, They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father; And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.read more.
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.read more.
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full. For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction. But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows. The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil. O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.