64 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, read more.
so that no one can boast in His presence. But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish? For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached. For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, read more.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom, because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

For the choir director: on Mahalath. A Davidic Maskil.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? When you depended on Yahweh, He handed them over to you. For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout the earth to show Himself strong for those whose hearts are completely His. You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?
Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you and reveal
what the Lord of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
The princes of Zoan have been fools;
the princes of Memphis are deceived.
Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

Woe to the rebellious children!
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan, but not Mine;
they make an alliance,
but against My will,
piling sin on top of sin.

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Then I thought:

They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.

A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:

He said to them, “How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken!

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
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, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Lord, they crush Your people;
they afflict Your heritage.
They kill the widow and the foreigner
and murder the fatherless.
They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.
The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”read more.
Pay attention, you stupid people!
Fools, when will you be wise?

As shameful conduct is pleasure for a fool,
so wisdom is for a man of understanding.

He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.

A fool gives full vent to his anger,
but a wise man holds it in check.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have been foolish. You have not kept the command which the Lord your God gave you. It was at this time that the Lord would have permanently established your reign over Israel,

David’s conscience troubled him after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I’ve done. Now, Lord, because I’ve been very foolish, please take away Your servant’s guilt.”

David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now, please take away Your servant’s guilt, for I’ve been very foolish.”

Fools suffered affliction
because of their rebellious ways and their sins.

A wise heart accepts commands,
but foolish lips will be destroyed.

“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;
they will search for me, but won’t find me.
Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,
were not interested in my counsel,
and rejected all my correction,
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they will eat the fruit of their way
and be glutted with their own schemes.
For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
But whoever listens to me will live securely
and be free from the fear of danger.”

He will die because there is no discipline,
and be lost because of his great stupidity.

A fool’s way is right in his own eyes,
but whoever listens to counsel is wise.

I spread out My hands all day long
to a rebellious people
who walk in the wrong path,
following their own thoughts.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.

A fool’s lips lead to strife,
and his mouth provokes a beating. A fool’s mouth is his devastation,
and his lips are a trap for his life.

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

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

They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

Fools mock at making restitution,
but there is goodwill among the upright.

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

Don’t speak to a fool,
for he will despise the insight of your words.

A foolish scheme is sin,
and a mocker is detestable to people.

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute,
but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

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

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive,
but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.

Stay away from a foolish man;
you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like lame legs that hang limp.

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

The one who trusts in himself is a fool,
but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

But the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil. Fools! Didn’t He who made the outside make the inside too?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

A wise man is cautious and turns from evil,
but a fool is easily angered and is careless.

The sensible man’s wisdom is to consider his way,
but the stupidity of fools deceives them.

A fool’s lips lead to strife,
and his mouth provokes a beating.

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin,
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.