Fool
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Fool’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 49–72 of 97 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Proverbs 1:7 OT
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
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A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
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“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
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It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
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The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
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Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
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Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
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Romans 1:22 NT
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
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A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
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The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and…
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A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
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It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
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He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
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The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
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A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
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A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
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The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.
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The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
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Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.