15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.

Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

I wish you could bear with me a little in my folly; but yet bear with me:

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Those who were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

Senseless men, did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?

Thoughtless man! That which you sow is not made alive, unless it die;

I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak. In what ever matter any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I also am bold.

For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.

But I say: Did not Israel know? First, Moses says: I will excite you to jealousy by that which is no nation; and by a foolish nation I will provoke you to wrath.