15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

Are ye so senseless? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

I WISH ye would bear with me a little in my foolishness, yea indeed bear with me.

I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.

What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly in this confidence of boasting.

But five of them were provident, and five foolish.

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

And the foolish said to the provident, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Ye senseless men! did not he who made that which is without, make also that which is within?

Thou fool! what thou sowest is not quickened except it die:

I speak with reference to the reproach [cast on me], as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

For though I should be disposed to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I shall speak truth: but I desist, lest any man think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth of me.

But I say, Did not Israel know? Moses first saith, "I will excite your jealousy by what is no nation, and by an ignorant people will I provoke you to wrath."