15 Bible Verses about Foolish People
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I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
Would that ye could bear with me in a little folly! and indeed ye do bear with me.
I say again, let no one suppose me a fool; if otherwise, yet even 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.
And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out.
I say it to my reproach, that we were weak; but in whatever any one is bold, (I speak in folly,) I am bold also.
For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.
But I say, Hath not Israel had knowledge? First, Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by that which is no nation, I will excite you to indignation by a foolish people."
Bible Theasaurus
- Foolish (271 instances)