15 Bible Verses about Foolish People
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I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.
Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.
I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting.
What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.
"and the foolish said to the wise, "'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
I say that I was weak, and yet for whatever reason any one is bold (I speak in mere folly) I too am bold.
If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.
But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses says. I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation; Against a Gentile nation, void of understanding, will I anger you.
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