'Foolish' in the Bible
For the foolish, when they took their torches, did not provide themselves with oil;
"'Give us some of your oil,' said the foolish ones to the wise, 'for our torches are going out.'
Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
"But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?'
Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.
But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;
Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.
We, for Christ's sake, are labeled as "foolish"; you, as Christians, are men of shrewd intelligence. We are mere weaklings: you are strong. You are in high repute: we are outcasts.
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.
To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.
It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.
You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you--you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross?
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?
Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks.
But avoid foolish discussions with ignorant men, knowing--as you do--that these lead to quarrels;
But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies and pedigrees and discussions and wrangling about the Law, for they are useless and vain.
For it is God's will that by doing what is right you should thus silence the ignorant talk of foolish persons.