Articles
The Wise and The Foolish
FOOLS VERSES THE WISE
Use the below passages (and any others that you choose) to learn and discuss the foolish and the wise. The God of Heaven is so Good. We love you all so much. Samuel
Contrast between the wise and the foolish
Proverbs 1:1-7 – wise man will hear and increase learning…fools despise wisdom and instruction (they don’t want to be taught the truth)
Proverbs 3:35 - The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame
Proverbs 10:14 – wise man stores up knowledge…the fools mouth quickly leas to destruction
Proverbs 10:23 – shameful conduct is pleasure for a fool…wisdom is pleasure for a man with understanding of the truth
Proverbs 12:15 - The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice
Proverbs 12:23 – wise man conceals knowledge…the fool publicizes his stupidity
Proverbs 13:16 - wise people think before they act; fools don’t—and even brag about their foolishness
Proverbs 13:20 – the one walking with the wise will be wise…a companion of fools will be destroyed
Proverbs 14:1 - the wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down
Proverbs 14:8 – the wise understand their way…the folly of fools is deceit
Proverbs 14:15 – the fool believes every word…the wise looks well to their going
Proverbs 14:16 – the wise man fears God and departs from evil…the fool rages and is confident
Proverbs 15:14 – the wise seek knowledge…the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness
Proverbs 15:20 – a wise son makes for a glad father…a foolish man despises his mother
Proverbs 15:21 – folly is joy to the fool…a wise man walks uprightly
Proverbs 17:24 – wisdom is before him with understanding…the eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth
Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get
Proverbs 28:26 – a fool will trust in his own heart…the wise shall be delivered
Proverbs 29:8 – a fool will bring a city into a snare…wise men turn away wrath
Proverbs 29:11 – a fool tells his whole mind…a wise man keeps it till afterwards
Matthew 7:24-26 – wise like a person who builds a house on solid rock…foolish like a person who builds a house on sand
Matthew 25:3-4 – the foolish do not prepare properly…the wise do prepare
**Ecclesiastes 2:13 – wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness
Ecclesiastes 2:14 – wise can see where they are going…fools walk in the dark
Ecclesiastes 4:13 – a poor but wise child is better than an old and foolish king who will not be admonished
Ecclesiastes 7:4 – wise heart is in the house of mourning…fools heart is in the house of mirth
Ecclesiastes 7:5 – to hear the rebuke of the wise is better than to hear the song of fools
Ecclesiastes 9:17 – wise men’s words heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools
Ecclesiastes 10:2 – a wise man’s heart is at his right hand…a fool’s heart at his left
Ecclesiastes 10:12 – wise words bring approval…fools are destroyed by their own words
Similarities between the wise and the foolish
Psalm 49:10 – both die
Proverbs 1:20; 9:13, 15 – the wise utter their voice without in the street…the foolish sit at home and calls out to the passerby
Ecclesiastes 2:16 – there is no remembrance of either
Matthew 25:5 – both the wise and the fool can slumber and sleep
Foolish Bible Characters
1 Samuel 25:25 - Nabal
1 Samuel 26:21 – King Saul
Psalm 14:1 – those who say there is no God
Psalm 69:5 – King David
Psalm 73:22 - Asaph
Proverbs 6:32 – the man who commits adultery
Jeremiah 10:1-8 – people who worship idols
Luke 12:20-21 – those who store up earthly wealth but are not rich in their relations toward God
2 Corinthians 10:12 – those who compare themselves with each other (using themselves as the standard of measurement
Galatians 3:1-3 - the Galatians…started new lives in the Spirit, but trying to become perfect by their own human effort
Wise Bible Characters by Name
Exodus 35:30-31 - Bezalel
Deuteronomy 34:9 - Joshua
2 Samuel 14:1-2 – woman from Tekoa
1 Kings 7:13-14 - Huram
1 Kings 10:1-8 – King Solomon
Proverbs 11:30 – wise person is one who wins friends
Daniel 1:11, 17-20 – the four young Hebrew men
Daniel 2:14 - Daniel
Acts 6:8-10 - Stephen
Acts 7:9-10 - Joseph
Acts 7:22 - Moses
1 Corinthians 7:25 - Paul
Our All-Wise God
Job 12:12-13 – true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are His
Job 28:23 - God alone understands the way to wisdom; he knows where it can be found
Psalm 104:24 - O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all
Jeremiah 10:12 - But the Lord made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom
Luke 2:40 - And the child [Jesus] grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him
Romans 11:33 - Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways
Romans 16:27 - All glory to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, forever
1 Corinthians 1:24 - Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God
1 Corinthians 1:25 - This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans
Colossians 2:3 - In him [Christ] lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
