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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.
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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.
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Five of them were foolish and five were wise.
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The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.
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The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
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The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
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You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
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I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
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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.
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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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.
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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?
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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.
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but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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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.
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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.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
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How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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Paul and the False Apostles
I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me!
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Faith or Works of the Law
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
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Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?
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Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
