'Foolish' in the Bible
"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Now five of them were foolish, and five were wise,
because when the foolish ones took their lamps, they didn't take any oil with them.
"But the foolish ones told the wise, "Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out!'
Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!
Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.
foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless.
We would not dare put ourselves in the same class with, or compare ourselves to, those who recommend themselves. Whenever they measure themselves by their own standards or compare themselves among themselves, they show how foolish they are.
You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified?
Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.
For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.
But avoid foolish controversies, arguments about genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the Law. These things are useless and worthless.
Do you want proof, you foolish person, that faith without actions is worthless?
For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
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- Absurd (4 instances)
- Extravagant (2 instances)
- Foolish (271 instances)
- Frivolous (4 instances)
- Idle (44 instances)
- Improper (9 instances)
- Inconsistent (5 instances)
- Insensate (1 instance)
- Irrational (9 instances)
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