'Foolishness' in the Bible

The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

The one who winks his eye causes trouble, and the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

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

For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.