Paul and the False Apostles

I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me.

Paul’s Sufferings for Christ

I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.

What I say in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but foolishly.

For you, being so wise, gladly put up with fools!

I say this to our shame: We have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to boast—I am talking foolishly—I also dare:

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

Signs of an Apostle

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Justification through Faith

You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.