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.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
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One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
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Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
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But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
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Romans 1:23 NT
and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
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One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
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Luke 12:20 NT
“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?’
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Matthew 7:26 NT
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.
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The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
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Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
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As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.
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When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
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Psalms 5:5 OT
The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
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Proverbs 9:6 OT
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
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Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
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Proverbs 8:5 OT
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
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Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
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Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
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As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.
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1 Kings 12:8 OT
But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
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“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
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You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?