15 Bible Verses about Foolish People

I have been "playing the fool!" It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent Apostles.

Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.

I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.

I say again--Let no one think me a fool! Yet, if you do, at least welcome me as you would a fool, that I, too may indulge in a little boasting.

When I speak thus, I am not speaking as the Master would, but as a fool might, in boasting so confidently.

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them;

And the foolish said to the prudent 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.'

Fools! did not the maker of the outside make the inside too?

You foolish man! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!

I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast--though it is foolish to say so--I am not afraid either!

Yet if I choose to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I shall be speaking no more than the truth. But I refrain, lest any one should credit me with more than he can see in me or hear from me, and because of the marvelous character of the revelations.

But again I ask 'Did not the people of Israel understand? First there is Moses, who says--'I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; Against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.'