Bible Verses about 'Fool'
| Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool. | He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. |
| Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler! | Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. |
| A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence. | A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence. |
| The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. | The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. |
| It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. |
| Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end. | A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control. |
| Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. | A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. |
| The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. | A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. |
| Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult. | A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent. |
| Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues. | Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. |
| Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. | The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips. |
| Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. | Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise. |
| 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. | For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. |
| A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. | A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. |
| And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. | A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there. |
| Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. | One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. |
| The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value. | The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. |
| The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. |
| Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. | But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. |
| When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. | 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. |
| Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. | Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. |
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