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'As a Fool' in the Bible

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove, And The WorldFrustrationgoodbyes

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Verse ConceptsCounted As Fools

With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

Verse ConceptsTwisted WaysGod Is PureGood Rebounding

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsIntegrityTemptation, ResistingAcceptance, Of InstructionResignationTemptressesCounted As FoolsGod Can Harm PeoplePeople Who Did RightOvercoming Hard TimesTragedyHardshipOvercoming Adversity

I was stupid and didn’t understand;I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleMammalsThose Who Were IgnorantIgnorance of Godignorance

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfManipulationInjustice, Examples OfMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinMoney, Stewardship OfProfitsRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfBusiness EthicsBirds, Figurative UseUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedAnimal ReproductionPartridgesFoolish PeopleMisrepresentationGetting RichFools

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

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.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePeople Lacking AuthorityBoasting

To my shame, I must say that we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast aboutI am speaking as a foolI also dare to boast about.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleBeing Strongassertiveness

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