Psalms 92:6

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

“Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.