32 Bible Verses about Fools, In Teaching Of Jesus Christ

Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted! Foolish and blind; for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple consecrating the gold?

And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?

And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye?

Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those. Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel.

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness. O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside?

The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things. And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture. O blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, and side dish of sweetmeats, that also their outside might be clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.read more.
So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding? Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy? But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.read more.
For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations: These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man. For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:read more.
All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

And Jesus having known, says to them, Why reason ye with yourselves, because ye have no loaves? observe ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of five thousand, and how many baskets ye took?

And they knew not the word, and were afraid to ask him.

And after these things, to two of them, walking about, was he manifested in another form, they going into the field. And they having come announced to the rest: neither did they believe them. Afterwards to those reclining at table was he manifested, and he reproached their unbelief and hard heart, because they believed not them having seen him raised.

And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well: And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things.read more.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

If he shall heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as clay; He shall prepare, and the just shall put on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. He built his house as the moth, and as a booth he watching made.read more.
The rich one shall lie down, and he shall not be gathered: he opened his eyes, and he is not

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? Yet the word in the king's mouth, a voice from the heavens fell to thee, being said, O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom passed away from thee:

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock. And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock. And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand.read more.
And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

And he having heard, and not having done, is like a man having built a house upon the earth, without a foundation; against which the river dashed, and immediately it fell; and the breaking of that house was great.

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs.read more.
And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them. And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.

I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear: Will ye not fear me? says Jehovah; or will ye not tremble from my face, who set the sand a bound to the sea a law forever, and it shall not pass over it: and its waves shall toss themselves and shall not prevail; and they were put in commotion and shall not pass over it And to this people was a heart turning aside and perverse, and they turned aside and departed.read more.
And they said not in their heart, Now will we fear Jehovah our God, giving rain, and the early and latter rain in its time: the appointed sevenths of harvest he will watch for us Your iniquities turned away these things, and your sins withheld the good from you.

This evil people, refusing to hear my words, going in the stubbornness of their heart, and they will go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and it shall be as this girdle which shall not profit for anything.

And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart.

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom. And five of them were discerning, and five foolish. Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them.read more.
And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns. And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept. And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting. Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order. And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched. And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves. And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.

Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning. Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him.

But I say to you, That every one becoming angry with his brother, shall be subject to judgment: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca, should be, subject to the council: and whoever should say, O foolish, shall be subject to a hell of fire.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.