Here are 34 Bible verses about foolish people from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Luke 11:40 KJV
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
2 Samuel 13:12 KJV
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
2 Corinthians 11:21 KJV
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 12:11 KJV
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Matthew 25:2 KJV
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
1 Chronicles 21:8 KJV
And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Isaiah 19:11 KJV
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Romans 10:19 KJV
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Deuteronomy 32:6 KJV
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
1 Corinthians 3:18 KJV
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Psalms 107:17 KJV
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
1 Kings 3:7 KJV
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
2 Corinthians 12:6 KJV
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Proverbs 7:7 KJV
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
2 Corinthians 11:17 KJV
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Galatians 3:3 KJV
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Psalms 73:22 KJV
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Titus 3:3 KJV
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
2 Corinthians 11:16 KJV
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
Matthew 25:3 KJV
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
2 Corinthians 11:1 KJV
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Psalms 38:5 KJV
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
1 Samuel 25:25 KJV
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Psalms 69:5 KJV
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Job 34:35 KJV
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
1 Samuel 26:21 KJV
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
Proverbs 30:2 KJV
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
2 Samuel 15:31 KJV
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Isaiah 19:13 KJV
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Deuteronomy 32:21 KJV
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Corinthians 15:36 KJV
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
Jeremiah 17:11 KJV
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Matthew 25:8 KJV
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
2 Samuel 24:10 KJV
And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.