68 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good.

I will hear what God Jehovah shall speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his godly ones: and they shall not turn back to folly.

The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah: a good understanding to all doing them: his praise stands forever.

Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice: She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words: How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?read more.
Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending; And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs: Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

He loving instruction loved knowledge: and he hating reproof, is stupid.

The foolish one will not delight in understanding, but in, the disclosings of his heart

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness. O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside?

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die:

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Being turned away from the way of their transgression, they will be humbled from their iniquities.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear: Will ye not fear me? says Jehovah; or will ye not tremble from my face, who set the sand a bound to the sea a law forever, and it shall not pass over it: and its waves shall toss themselves and shall not prevail; and they were put in commotion and shall not pass over it And to this people was a heart turning aside and perverse, and they turned aside and departed.read more.
And they said not in their heart, Now will we fear Jehovah our God, giving rain, and the early and latter rain in its time: the appointed sevenths of harvest he will watch for us Your iniquities turned away these things, and your sins withheld the good from you.

He trusting in his heart is foolish: and he going in wisdom shall be delivered.

He trusting in his riches himself shall fall: and the just shall flourish as the foliage.

The way of the foolish is right in his eyes: and the wise one heard to counsel.

There is a way straight before man, and its latter state the ways of death.

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

O God, thou knewest for my folly, and my faults were not hid from thee.

A prudent man covered knowledge: and the heart of the foolish will meet folly.

Every prudent one will do in knowledge: and the foolish one will spread folly.

The tongue of the wise will make knowledge good: and the mouth of the foolish will gush forth folly.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit

The simple will believe to every word: and the prudent will understand to his going.

And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart, Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house, In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness:read more.
And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house: One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner. She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him, Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows. For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee. With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon. Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves. For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off. He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon. With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away. He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish. Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything. And sitting at the door of her house, upon the throne of the heights of the city, To call to those passing the way, making straight their paths:read more.
Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him, Stolen waters will be sweet, and the bread of secrets shall be pleasant And he knew not that there the shades; her called ones in the depths of hades

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?

The crafty saw evil, and he will hide, and the simple passed on and were punished.

And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.

He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.

The wise of heart will receive commands: and the foolish of lips shall fall.

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.

The wise shall inherit glory, and the foolish exalt dishonor.

He turning back the word before he shall hear it, is folly and shame to him.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.

The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,

The understanding of him possessing it is a fountain of life: and the instruction of the foolish is folly.

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows.

A whip for the horse, the curb for the ass, and the rod for the back of the foolish.

And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.

And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly.

The heart of him understanding will seek knowledge: and the face of the foolish will feed folly.

As a dog turned back upon his vomit, the foolish one repeated in his folly.

And Aaron will say to Moses, With leave, my lord, now thou shalt not put upon us the sin in which we were foolish, and in which we sinned.

And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another. And when the kindness and philanthropy of our Saviour God was made evident, Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

Thou shalt strike him mocking, and the simple will be crafty: and reprove to him understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge.

Folly being bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of correction shall remove it far off from him.

The rod and reproofs will give wisdom: and the youth being left shames his mother.

Understand craftiness, ye simple: and ye foolish, understand the heart

In the heart of him understanding, wisdom shall rest: and in the midst of fools it shall be made known.

And they going astray shall know understanding, and they murmuring shall learn knowledge.

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.