But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Fool!’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You moron!’ will be subject to hellfire.

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold?

Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.

When the foolish took their lamps, they didn’t take olive oil with them.

But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Fools! Didn’t He who made the outside make the inside too?

The Parable of the Rich Fool

Someone from 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 is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

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

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Christ the Power and Wisdom of God

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

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

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

The Folly of Human Wisdom

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.