100 Bible Verses about Idiot (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about idiot, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 19:3 KJV

³The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

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Proverbs 14:29 KJV

²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

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Proverbs 15:21 KJV

²¹Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

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Proverbs 29:11 KJV

¹¹A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

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Proverbs 13:16 KJV

¹⁶Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

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Proverbs 26:11 KJV

¹¹As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

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Proverbs 28:26 KJV

²⁶He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

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Proverbs 15:14 KJV

¹⁴The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

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Proverbs 17:12 KJV

¹²Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

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Proverbs 14:8 KJV

⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

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Psalm 14:1 KJV

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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Proverbs 14:16 KJV

¹⁶A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

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James 1:5 KJV

⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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Proverbs 26:4 KJV

⁴Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

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Proverbs 9:13-18 KJV

¹³A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. ¹⁴For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, ¹⁵To call passengers who go right on their ways: ¹⁶Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ¹⁷Stolen waters are sweet, …

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Job 4:18 KJV

¹⁸Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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1 Samuel 25:25 KJV

²⁵Let 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.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Proverbs 26:5 KJV

⁵Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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Ecclesiastes 2:12 KJV

¹²And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

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Proverbs 18:13 KJV

¹³He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

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Proverbs 10:23 KJV

²³It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

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Proverbs 1:7 KJV

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Psalm 85:8 KJV

⁸I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

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Job 42:8 KJV

⁸Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

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Joshua 7:15 KJV

¹⁵And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.

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Genesis 34:7 KJV

⁷And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter: which thing ought not to be done.

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1 John 4:8 KJV

⁸He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Philippians 4:6 KJV

⁶Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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Ephesians 4:25 KJV

²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV

¹⁸For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 KJV

¹³Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

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Proverbs 20:3 KJV

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

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Proverbs 16:22 KJV

²²Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

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Job 24:12 KJV

¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

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James 4:2 KJV

²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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James 1:15 KJV

¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Romans 13:3 KJV

³For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

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Romans 1:21 KJV

²¹Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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John 16:33 KJV

³³These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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Luke 11:1 KJV

¹And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

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Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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Matthew 6:10 KJV

¹⁰Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25 KJV

²⁵I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

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Proverbs 18:2 KJV

²A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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Proverbs 15:1 KJV

¹A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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Proverbs 10:14 KJV

¹⁴Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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Deuteronomy 22:21 KJV

²¹Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

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Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Proverbs 24:9 KJV

⁹The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

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Proverbs 14:24 KJV

²⁴The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

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Psalm 69:5 KJV

⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

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Judges 20:10 KJV

¹⁰And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

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Judges 20:6 KJV

⁶And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

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Leviticus 20:13 KJV

¹³If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Leviticus 18:22 KJV

²²Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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James 1:13-14 KJV

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: ¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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James 1:2-4 KJV

²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; ³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. ⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV

¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Hebrews 11:1-40 KJV

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ²For by it the elders obtained a good report. ³Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. ⁴By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he …

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Isaiah 32:6 KJV

⁶For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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Proverbs 14:18 KJV

¹⁸The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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Proverbs 5:23 KJV

²³He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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Psalm 49:13 KJV

¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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Judges 19:23 KJV

²³And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

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James 5:13 KJV

¹³Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

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Matthew 5:22 KJV

²²But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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Proverbs 29:20 KJV

²⁰Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

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Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV

¹⁹And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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Revelation 22:15 KJV

¹⁵For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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Revelation 21:8 KJV

⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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Revelation 21:1 KJV

¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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2 Corinthians 5:1-21 KJV

¹For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: ³If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. ⁴For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being …

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Romans 1:22 KJV

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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John 8:1-59 KJV

¹Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. ²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. ³And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, ⁴They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. …

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Luke 15:10 KJV

¹⁰Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

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Mark 7:22 KJV

²²Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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Jeremiah 23:13 KJV

¹³And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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Jeremiah 4:22 KJV

²²For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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Ecclesiastes 10:1-3 KJV

¹Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. ²A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. ³Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

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Ecclesiastes 2:3 KJV

³I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

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Ecclesiastes 1:17 KJV

¹⁷And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

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Proverbs 14:23 KJV

²³In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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Proverbs 12:15 KJV

¹⁵The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

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Proverbs 1:22 KJV

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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Psalm 119:59 KJV

⁵⁹I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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Revelation 20:13 KJV

¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

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Revelation 9:21 KJV

²¹Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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1 John 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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James 1:20 KJV

²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

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Colossians 3:1 KJV

¹If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Philippians 3:18-19 KJV

¹⁸(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

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1 Corinthians 6:9 KJV

⁹Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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Romans 12:21 KJV

²¹Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Romans 1:1-32 KJV

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, ²(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) ³Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; ⁴And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the …

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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