15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

I have become foolish; ye compelled me; for I ought to be commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect in the flesh?

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me.

I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little.

What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

And five of them were foolish, and five wise;

for the foolish, taking their lamps, did not take oil with them;

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

Senseless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

Foolish one! that which you sow is not made alive, except it die;

I speak by way of dishonor, as though we were weak; but in whatever anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I also am bold.

For, if I should desire to glory, I would not be foolish, for I shall be speaking truth; but I forbear, lest some one should think, in regard to me, above what he sees me to be, or hears from me.

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."