28 verses contain “foolishness” (in the KJV: 26, in the BSB: 11) — showing 1–28
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And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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 after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
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.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.
Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he left behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:
But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.