Fools - There's A Scripture For That (NIV) Version

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise

Synonyms for Fools: simpletons, idiots, dope, dunces, morons, berks, chumps, dummies, boneheads, charlies, clods, cretins, ignoramuses, imbeciles, jerks, nincompoops, ninnies, blockheads, dimwits, and dolts

Psalm 38:5 (NIV)
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

Psalm 69:5 (NIV)
You, God, know my folly; my guilt is not hidden from you.

Psalm 85:8 (NIV)
I will listen to what God the Lord says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly.

Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22 (NIV)
“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:32 (NIV)
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Proverbs 3:35 (NIV)
The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.

Proverbs 8:5 (NIV)
You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.

Proverbs 10:10 (NIV)
Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.

Proverbs 10:14 (NIV)
he wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.

Proverbs 10:21 (NIV)
The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 12:23 (NIV)
The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.

Proverbs 13:16 (NIV)
All who are prudent act with knowledge, but fools expose their folly.

Proverbs 13:19 (NIV)
A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Proverbs 13:20 (NIV)
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 14:9 (NIV)
Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.

Proverbs 14:24 (NIV)
The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.

Proverbs 15:2 (NIV)
The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

Proverbs 15:14 (NIV)
The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

Proverbs 15:20 (NIV)
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 16:22 (NIV)
Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.

Proverbs 17:24 (NIV)
A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:25 (NIV)
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

Proverbs 17:28 (NIV)
Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.

Proverbs 18:2 (NIV)
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

Proverbs 19:3 (NIV)
A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord.

Proverbs 19:13 (NIV)
A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.

Proverbs 19:29 (NIV)
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 22:15 (NIV)
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

Proverbs 24:9 (NIV)
The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.

Proverbs 26:6 (NIV)
Sending a message by the hands of a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison.

Proverbs 26:7 (NIV)
Like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Proverbs 26:9 (NIV)
Like a thornbush in a drunkard’s hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Proverbs 26:11 (NIV)
As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.

Proverbs 29:9 (NIV)
If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.

Proverbs 29:11 (NIV)
Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 (NIV)
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 (NIV)
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Ecclesiastes 7:5 (NIV)
It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 (NIV)
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 (NIV)
The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-6 (NIV)
There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler: 6. Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.

Isaiah 35:8 (NIV)
And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.

Luke 24:25 (NIV)
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Romans 1:22-23 (NIV)
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23. and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

1 Corinthians 1:18 (NIV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21 (NIV)
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:25 (NIV)
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:19 (NIV)
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;