But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

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

coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

You fools! Did not he 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, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

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

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

But 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.”

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?

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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;

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Paul and the False Apostles

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle

I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.