'Foolish' in the Bible

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.

Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.

For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.

For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.