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 honorable, but we are despised.

Consider your calling, brothers. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse (shame) the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse (shame) the things that are mighty. God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.read more.
No human being should boast before God. It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Let it be as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah! (Jeremiah 9:24)

For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. Indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom.read more.
We preach Christ impaled. It is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the nations! To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, it is 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.

([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.

Then the prophet Hanani went to King Asa. He said: Because you relied on the king of Syria instead of relying on Jehovah your God, the army of the king of Israel has escaped from you. The Ethiopians and the Libyans, did they have large armies with many chariots and cavalry troops? But because you relied on Jehovah he gave you victory over them. The eyes of Jehovah keep close watch over the entire world. He gives strength (shows His strength) to (in behalf of) those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly! Therefore from now on you will always be at war.

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings? Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what Jehovah of Hosts has purposed (planned) (resolved) against Egypt. The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis (Noph) are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.

Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.

My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand.

He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise. Make the most of your time (redeem or ransom back time), because the days are evil. Do not be foolish, but understand (perceive) what the will of Jehovah is.

They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!

Every man is stupid lacking knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful. There is no breath in them.

All mankind is stupid and devoid of knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools. They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

A fool speaks foolishly and thinks up evil things to do. He promotes wickedness and what he says insults Jehovah. He never feeds the hungry or gives thirsty people anything to drink.

They crush your people, O Jehovah. They make those who belong to you suffer. They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans. They say: Jehovah does not see it. The God of Jacob does not even pay attention to it.read more.
Pay attention, you stupid (senseless) people! When will you become wise, you fools?

It is like sport to a fool to do mischief. A man of understanding has wisdom.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

A fool loses his temper. But a wise man holds it back.

You did a foolish thing, Samuel told Saul. You did not follow the command of Jehovah your God. If you had, Jehovah would have established your kingdom over Israel from generation to generation (for a very long time).

After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told Jehovah: What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Jehovah, please forgive me.

David said to God: I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.

Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

The wise in heart will accept the law but a babbling fool will fall.

How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!

You will ask for my help, but I will not listen. You will search, but you will not find me. You have no use for knowledge and you refuse to respect Jehovah. You rejected my advice and paid no attention when I warned you.read more.
Now you will get what you deserve for what you have done. Your own advice will make you sick. Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools. Whoever listens to me will be secure and will be free from the fear of evil.

He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. He who listens to counsel is wise.

All day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations (thoughts),

But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.

But the people of Israel will refuse to listen to you because they refuse to listen to me. All the people of Israel are very stubborn and hardheaded.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows. A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

Nor should there be filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting but rather giving of thanks.

Truly a fool hides hatred with lying lips, and speaks slander.

They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

Fools mock at sin, but among the righteous there is good will.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it. Knowledge is easy to him who discerns.

Do not speak to a fool for he will despise your wise words.

The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.

It is an honor for a man to cease from discord. Only fools start quarrels.

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

They should not pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These myths (false stories) (fabrications) and genealogies stimulate questions and speculation. They do not enhance the administration of God that is by faith.

he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing they produce quarrels (controversy) (fighting).

You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge properly. The mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive that he does not have lips of knowledge.

As the legs of the lame are not equal so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

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

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

Are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless (barren) (lifeless)?

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You foolish ones. Did he that made the outside also make the inside?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

A wise man is cautious and departs from evil. But the fool is arrogant and careless.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.