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O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
— James 2:20
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
— Proverbs 1:17
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
— Martin Luther
How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.
— Martin Luther
Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.
— Martin Luther
I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
— Romans 1:14
For since through the sin of Adam we are sunk in blindness, so that we are wholly ignorant of God in all His will and counsel, it is not only foolish but also impossible of ourselves to prepare a light and a way by which to approach God and find out what He would have us do, as He says in the Book of Wisdom (9:13-14): "The thoughts of mortals are fearful and uncertain. For who among men can know what God wants?
— Martin Luther
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
— Psalm 74:18
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
— John Calvin
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
— Proverbs 19:13
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
— Matthew 25:2
A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.
— Proverbs 24:9