Fools
54 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
44 sections
- All Men Are, Without the Knowledge of God
- Are: A Grief to Parents
- Are: Angry
- Are: Contentious
- Are: Corrupt and Abominable
- Are: Full of Words
- Are: Given to Meddling
- Are: Liars
- Are: Mere Professors of Religion
- Are: Self-Confident
- Are: Self-Deceivers
- Are: Self-Sufficient
- Are: Slanderers
- Are: Slothful
- Avoid Them
- Blaspheme God
- Cling to Their Folly
- Come to Shame
- Delight not in Understanding
- Deny God
- Depend Upon Their Wealth
- Despise Instruction
- Destroy Themselves by Their Speech
- Exhorted to Seek Wisdom
- God Has No Pleasure In
- Hate Knowledge
- Hate to Depart from Evil
- Hear the Gospel and Obey It Not
- Honor is Unbecoming For
- Israel
- Lips of, a Snare to the Soul
- Make a Mock at Sin
- Pharisees
- Punishment of
- Rehoboam
- Reproach God
- Shall not Stand in the Presence of God
- Sport Themselves in Mischief
- The Company of, Ruinous
- The Mouth of, Pours out Folly
- Trust to Their own Hearts
- Walk in Darkness
- Worship Idols
- Worship of, Hateful to God
All Men Are, Without the Knowledge of God
- Titus 3:3 For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures — living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Are: A Grief to Parents
- Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
- Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Are: Angry
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Are: Contentious
- Proverbs 18:6 A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.
Are: Corrupt and Abominable
- Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Are: Full of Words
- Ecclesiastes 10:14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Are: Given to Meddling
- Proverbs 20:3 It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
Are: Liars
- Proverbs 10:18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Are: Mere Professors of Religion
- Matthew 25:2–12 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. …
Are: Self-Confident
- Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
Are: Self-Deceivers
- Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.
Are: Self-Sufficient
- Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
- Romans 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Are: Slanderers
- Proverbs 10:18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Are: Slothful
- Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
Avoid Them
- Proverbs 9:6 Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
- Proverbs 14:7 Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
Blaspheme God
- Psalm 74:18 Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
Cling to Their Folly
- Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Proverbs 27:22 Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Come to Shame
- Proverbs 3:35 The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.
Delight not in Understanding
- Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions.
Deny God
- Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalm 53:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
Depend Upon Their Wealth
- Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Despise Instruction
- Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 15:5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Destroy Themselves by Their Speech
- Proverbs 10:8 A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
- Proverbs 10:14 The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
- Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
Exhorted to Seek Wisdom
- Proverbs 8:5 O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
God Has No Pleasure In
- Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
Hate Knowledge
- Proverbs 1:22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Hate to Depart from Evil
- Proverbs 13:19 Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools.
Hear the Gospel and Obey It Not
- Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Honor is Unbecoming For
- Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
- Proverbs 26:8 Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.
Israel
- Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Lips of, a Snare to the Soul
- Proverbs 18:7 A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Make a Mock at Sin
- Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
Pharisees
- Matthew 23:17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
- Matthew 23:19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
Punishment of
- Psalm 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
- Proverbs 26:10 Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
Rehoboam
- 1 Kings 12:8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
Reproach God
- Psalm 74:22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
Shall not Stand in the Presence of God
- Psalm 5:5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Sport Themselves in Mischief
- Proverbs 10:23 The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
The Company of, Ruinous
- Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
The Mouth of, Pours out Folly
- Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
Trust to Their own Hearts
- Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
Walk in Darkness
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
Worship Idols
- Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Romans 1:22–23 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, …
Worship of, Hateful to God
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.