Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'fool' occurs 76 times in the standard works.

22 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'fool' in the standard works and contain 28.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 2:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Prov. 26:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Eccl. 10:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 26:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 17:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 11:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 12:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 18:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 64 92 156
NT 9 34 43
Matt. 1 6 7
Mark 0 1 1
Luke 1 2 3
Rom. 0 4 4
1 Cor. 2 9 11
2 Cor. 5 3 8
Gal. 0 2 2
Eph. 0 2 2
1 Tim. 0 1 1
2 Tim. 0 1 1
Titus 0 2 2
1 Pet. 0 1 1
BM 3 27 30
DC 0 2 2
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 76 156 232

Matt. 5:22
But 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.

Matt. 7:26
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Matt. 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Matt. 23:19
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Matt. 25:2
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Matt. 25:3
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

Matt. 25:8
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Luke 24:25
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Rom. 1:21
Because 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.

Rom. 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom. 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Rom. 10:19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

1 Cor. 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Cor. 1:20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Cor. 1:21
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1 Cor. 1:23
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

1 Cor. 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Cor. 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

1 Cor. 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Cor. 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Cor. 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Cor. 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

1 Cor. 15:36
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

2 Cor. 11:16
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

2 Cor. 11:17
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

2 Cor. 11:19
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

2 Cor. 11:21
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

2 Cor. 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2 Cor. 12:6
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

2 Cor. 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Gal. 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Gal. 3:3
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Eph. 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Eph. 5:15
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

1 Tim. 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

2 Tim. 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

1 Pet. 2:15
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: