15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not in the least inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become a fool so that he may become wise.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.

I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

What I am saying I am not saying as the Lord would, but as a fool, in this confidence of boasting.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them;

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

You foolish ones! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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.

Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will make you angry."