But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

The Wise and Foolish Builders

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

The Wise and Foolish Builders

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

The Parable of the Rich Fool

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom

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.

Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;