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But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgement; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, “You fool”, you will be liable to the hell of fire.
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And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?
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Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
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When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them;
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The foolish said to the wise, “Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.”
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You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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The Parable of the Rich Fool
Someone in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’
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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?”
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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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I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish
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Claiming to be wise, they became fools;
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foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,
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Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, ‘I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.’
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Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.
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but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
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For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
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But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
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Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are discerned spiritually.
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Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’,
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We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honour, but we in disrepute.
