'Foolish' in the Bible
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
When the foolish took their lamps, they didn’t take olive oil with them.
But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’
Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.
Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
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.
No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.
Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?
Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.