15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing.

have you so little understanding, as having begun in the spiritual doctrine of the gospel, to turn again to the law?

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

let no man deceive himself: if any among you pretends to worldly wisdom, let him commence fool, in order to be truly wise.

Would you could bear with me a little in my vanity, but indeed you do bear with me.

I say it again, let no man think me vain; but if they do, yet as such, bear with me, that I too may applaud my self a little.

what I say, I say it not as an apostle, but as it were to indulge my vanity in this matter of boasting.

five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

they that 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.

do you stupidly imagine that he, who made the outward man, did not make the inward too?

foolish as you are, the grain you sow, is not revived except it die.

as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like.

tho' if I had a mind to glory, I might do it without vanity, for I should say nothing but what is true: but now I forbear, lest any man should ascribe more to me than my actions, or my preaching can justify.

but still I ask, did not Israel know this? first, Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy, by those that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."