Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'foolish' occurs 73 times in the standard works.

9 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'foolish' in the standard works and contain 12.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 30:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 5:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 35 23 58
NT 17 9 26
Matt. 4 0 4
Mark 0 1 1
Rom. 3 0 3
1 Cor. 2 6 8
2 Cor. 0 2 2
Gal. 2 0 2
Eph. 1 0 1
1 Tim. 1 0 1
2 Tim. 1 0 1
Titus 2 0 2
1 Pet. 1 0 1
BM 19 4 23
DC 1 0 1
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 73 36 109

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. 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.

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. 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. 1:20
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. 1:27
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;

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.

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: