Quotes About Foolishness

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.

The foolish ones said to the wise, ëGive us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.í

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

For the foolishness of God is wiser than manís wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than manís strength.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in Godís sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”