'Foolish' in the Bible
And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:
For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them:
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?
But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if ye do , yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves .
For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be , or heareth from me.
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: