68 Bible Verses about Folly, Effects Of

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

To man he said: 'Respect for Jehovah is wisdom! To stay away from evil is understanding.'

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

I want to hear what the Lord Jehovah says, because he promises peace to his people, to his godly ones. But they must not go back to their stupidity.

The respect and reverence for Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom. All who obey his commandments show good sense (insight) and understanding. His praise endures (continues) forever.

Wisdom calls you! She raises her voice in the streets and marketplaces. She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says: How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!read more.
Listen when I reprove you. I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make my words known to you. I called you! I stretched out my hand to you. You paid no attention to me. You have ignored all my counsel. You accept no correction. I also will laugh at your trouble. I will mock when your fear comes. Trouble and distress will surround you like a whirlwind, like a great storm.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. He that hates reproof is stupid.

A fool (stupid person) does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.

Do not be foolish, but understand (perceive) what the will of Jehovah is.

A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand.

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You foolish ones. Did he that made the outside also make the inside?

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

You fool, that which you sow is not alive unless it first dies.

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing they produce quarrels (controversy) (fighting).

You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.' Do you not reverence (respect) me? Asks Jehovah. Do you not tremble [with awe] in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier it cannot cross. Although the waves toss continuously, they cannot break through. Although they roar, they cannot cross it. These people are stubborn and rebellious. They have turned aside and departed from me.read more.
They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.' Your wickedness has turned these things away. Your sins have kept good things away from you.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. He who listens to counsel is wise.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death.

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

O God, you know my foolishness. My sins are not hidden from you.

A prudent man conceals knowledge. The heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

Every prudent man acts with knowledge. A fool displays his folly.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge properly. The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

The simple believes every word, but the prudent man gives thought to his steps.

I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding. He passed through the street near her corner. He went to her house. In the twilight, in the evening, in the darkness of the night:read more.
He met an evil hearted woman dressed seductively like an immoral woman. She is loud and rebellious and never stays at home. Now in the streets and squares, she waits at every corner. She put her arms around him and kissed him, and with an impudent look she said: I have peace offerings with me since I paid my vows. So I came to meet you and seek your presence. I found you. I covered my bed with fine linen from Egypt. I perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come; let us take our fill of love until morning. Let us comfort ourselves with love. My husband is not at home. He went on a long trip. He took a bag of money with him. He will come home at the appointed day. She seduced him with her persuasive words. She forced him with her flattering lips. He immediately goes after her. He is like a bull that goes to the slaughter. Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life.

A foolish woman is noisy. She has no sense at all. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call those who pass by who go straight on their way:read more.
Let the inexperienced (naive) one come in here, and to the person who lacks understanding she says: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. He does not know the dead are there. Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.

O foolish Galatians, who fascinated (cast a spell over) (beguiled) (influenced) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly presented impaled.

A prudent man sees evil and takes refuge. The simple (fool) (inexperienced) keep going and suffers.

While they were away, the bridegroom came. They that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast and the door was shut.

Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.

He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.

The wise in heart will accept the law but a babbling fool will fall.

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

Wise people will inherit glory. But disgrace is the legacy of stupid (foolish) people.

It is foolishness and shame to answer a matter before you hear it.

All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.

Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

He who gives birth to a fool does it to his sorrow because the father of a fool has no joy.

Understanding is a wellspring of life to the man who has it. But the instruction of fools is folly.

My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.

There will be a highway there, called: The Road of Holiness. No sinner will ever travel that road. No fools will mislead those who follow it.

While they were away, the bridegroom came. They that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast and the door was shut. Later the other virgins came, saying: 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' But he told them: 'I do not know you.'

Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.

The heart of one with understanding seeks knowledge. The mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

As a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his folly.

He said to Moses: Please, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. When the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit.

Strike a scoffer and the simple will be wary. Reprove someone who has understanding, and he will discern knowledge.

When the scoffer is punished the simple (naive) is made wise. When the wise is instructed he gains knowledge.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

O you simple ones, understand wisdom and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Wisdom rests in the heart of the man with understanding. That in the heart of fools is made known.

People who stray will learn to understand. Those who always grumble will be glad to be taught.

You are an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.