Five ¹  of the virgins ²  were foolish, and five were wise.

Jesus ¹  said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

When ¹  the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra ²  olive oil ³  with them.

But reject foolish and ignorant ¹  controversies, because you know they breed infighting. ² 

For God wants you ¹  to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

The ¹  foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

So ¹  he said to them, “You ²  foolish people ³  – how slow of heart ⁴  to believe ⁵  all that the prophets have spoken!

I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

You ¹  foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell ²  on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed ³  as crucified!

Are you so foolish? Although you began ¹  with ²  the Spirit, are you now trying to finish ³  by human effort? ⁴ 

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise ¹  by understanding ²  what the Lord’s will is.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹  quarrels, and fights about the law, ²  because they are useless and empty.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

who said by the Holy Spirit through ¹  your servant David our forefather, ²  ‘Why do the nations ³  rage, ⁴  and the peoples plot foolish ⁵  things?

But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? ¹  Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

Guard against self-deception, each of you. ¹  If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.