Word: fool
Found 69 verses in 11 books
1 Samuel 26:21
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
Psalms 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 49:10
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 53:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Proverbs 7:22
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:10
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 11:29
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Proverbs 12:16
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Proverbs 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 17:12
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs 17:16
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Proverbs 17:21
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs 20:3
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Proverbs 26:1
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:6
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Proverbs 26:8
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Proverbs 26:10
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Proverbs 29:11
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Proverbs 29:20
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Matthew 5:22
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 15:36
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.