'Foolish' in the Bible
Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also?
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: