64 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;read more.
so that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."

For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;read more.
but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness. But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart; 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 you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Jehovah your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Jehovah, he delivered them into your hand. For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. You have done foolishly in this; therefore from now on you shall have wars.

Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Where are they? Where are your wise men? And let them tell you now, and let them know what Jehovah of Hosts has planned against Egypt. The rulers of Zoan have become fools, the rulers of Noph are deceived; they have also caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.

Woe to the rebellious sons, says Jehovah, who make advice, but not of Me; and who cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they add sin to sin;

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

And He said to them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all things that the prophets spoke!

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Every man is stupid for lack of knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

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

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.

They crush Your people, O Jehovah, and afflict Your inheritance. They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe it.read more.
Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise?

To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

A fool speaks all his mind; but a wise one keeps it in until afterwards.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Jehovah your God, which He commanded you. For now Jehovah would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O Jehovah, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. But now, I beseech You, remove the iniquity of Your servant for I have done very foolishly.

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

The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a babbling fool shall fall.

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; instead they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah. They would have none of my counsel; they despised all my correction,read more.
and they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own desires. For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them. But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

He shall die without 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 listens to advice is wise.

I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts;

And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own ways, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead and hard of heart.

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

neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Fools laugh at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

The thought of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is hateful to men.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool exposes himself.

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

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith).

he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they give birth to strifes.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

Go from before a foolish man when you do not see in him the lips of knowledge.

The legs of the lame are not equal; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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

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

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness. Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

Professing to be wise, they became fools

A wise one fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is sure.

The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A fool's lips enter into argument, and his mouth calls for strokes.

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

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.