Luke 11:40
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40 You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)
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1 Corinthians 15:36
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36 Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.(A)
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Matthew 23:26
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26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate,[a] so that the outside also may become clean.
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- 23.26 Other ancient authorities lack and of the plate
Hebrews 12:9
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9 Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
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Luke 24:25
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25 Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!
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Matthew 23:17
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17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?(A)
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Zechariah 12:1
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Jerusalem’s Victory
12 An Oracle.
The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:(A)
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Jeremiah 5:21
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21 Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear.(A)
Proverbs 8:5
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5 O simple ones, learn prudence;
acquire intelligence, you who lack it.(A)
Proverbs 1:22
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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
Psalm 94:8-9
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8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?(A)
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?(B)
Psalm 75:4-5
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4 I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”
and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;(A)
5 do not lift up your horn on high
or speak with insolent neck.”(B)
Psalm 33:15
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15 he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.(A)
Psalm 14:1
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Psalm 14
Denunciation of Godlessness
To the leader. Of David.
1 Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds;
there is no one who does good.(A)
Numbers 16:22
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22 They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”(A)
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Genesis 2:7
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7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)
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- 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man
Genesis 1:26
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26 Then God said, “Let us make humans[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(A)
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