64 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,read more.
so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,read more.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand. For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars."

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"? Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt. The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger.

"Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."

Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."read more.
Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,read more.
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster."

He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating. A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

And the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.