57 Bible Verses about Fools
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
From Thematic Bible
Fools » Characteristics of » Reveal their folly
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly will be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Fools » Witnesses, two or thee required » Disciples and early Christians as
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
And he was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the word;
Fools » Characteristics of » Hypocrisy
But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
And the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
Fools » Punishment of
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Fools » Characteristics of » Self-confidence
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Fools » Are » A grief to parents
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Fools » Cling to their folly
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Fools » Destroy themselves by their speech
Fools » Worship idols
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools: And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping animals.
Fools » Characteristics of » Dishonesty
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:
Fools » Honor is unbecoming for
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool.
Fools » Are » Self-sufficient
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.
Fools » Despise instruction
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fools » Avoid them
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Fools » Deny God
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Fools » Are » Full of words
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Fools » Walk in darkness
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Fools » Are » Angry
Fools » Are » Slothful
Fools » Worship of, hateful to God
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Fools » God has no pleasure in
When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Fools » Are » Mere professors of religion
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. read more.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil: for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say to you, I know you not.
Fools » Characteristics of » Slander
Fools » Are » Self-confident
Fools » Are » Slanderers
Fools » Are » Liars
Fools » Sport themselves in mischief
Fools » Trust to their own hearts
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Fools » Hate to depart from evil
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Fools » The company of, ruinous
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Fools » Characteristics of » Despising instruction
Fools » Characteristics of » Mocking at sin
Fools » Characteristics of » Meddlesomeness
Fools » Characteristics of » Contentiousness
Fools » Exemplified » Israel
For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Fools » Are » Given to meddling
Fools » Are » Self-deceivers
Fools » Are » Contentious
Fools » The mouth of, pours out folly
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Fools » Delight not in understanding
Fools » Lips of, a snare to the soul
Fools » Make a mock at sin
Fools » Hate knowledge
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Fools » Come to shame
Fools » Exemplified » Rehoboam
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had grown up with him, and who stood before him:
Fools » Hear the gospel and obey it not
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:
Fools » Exhorted to seek wisdom
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Fools » Blaspheme God
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Fools » Reproach God
Fools » Characteristics of » Atheism
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Fools » Are » Corrupt and abominable
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Fools » Depend upon their wealth
But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
Fools » All men are, without the knowledge of God
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Fools » Shall not stand in the presence of God
Names » Of the wicked » Fools
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Titles and names of the wicked » Fools
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Topics on Fools
Anger, Characteristic Of Fools
Proverbs 12:16A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Counted As Fools
2 Samuel 3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
Fools Attitude To God
Psalm 14:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Fools Becoming Wise
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Fools, Characteristics Of
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
Fools, Description Of
Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Fools, In Teaching Of Jesus Christ
Matthew 23:16-17Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
God's Attitude To Fools
Luke 12:20But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
The Work Of Fools
Ecclesiastes 10:15The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.