I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

From the city the dying ¹  groan, and the wounded ²  cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing. ³ 

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words ¹  they are able to entice, ²  with fleshly desires and with debauchery, ³  people ⁴  who have just escaped ⁵  from those who reside in error. ⁶ 

Abandon your foolish ways ¹  so that you may live, ²  and proceed ³  in the way of understanding.”

I said of partying, ¹  “It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure, ²  “It accomplishes nothing!” ³ 

The one caught with the riches ¹  must be burned up ²  along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces ¹  throughout the territory occupied by Israel, ²  because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity ³  in Israel.

The unbeliever ¹  does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety. ¹ 

And further, ¹  when you say that his anger does not punish, ²  and that he does not know transgression! ³ 

This is the destiny of fools, ¹  and of those who approve of their philosophy. ²  (Selah)

Every wise woman ¹  builds ²  her household, ³  but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

but we preach about a crucified Christ, ¹  a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, ¹  and there are no exceptions. ² 

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you.

But she said to him, “No, my brother! Don’t humiliate me! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this foolish thing!

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns ¹  under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly ²  also is useless. ³ 

Indeed, they ¹  will be ashamed of the sacred trees you ²  find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards ³  where you choose to worship.