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.


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Jeremiah 4 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Proverbs 14 9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Psalms 107 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Isaiah 64 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Luke 6 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
2 Corinthians 2 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Proverbs 13 20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
2 Corinthians 11 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Psalms 5 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Matthew 23 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 10 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Proverbs 14 33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
2 Corinthians 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.
Proverbs 24 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Proverbs 11 20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Ephesians 5 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Jeremiah 3 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
1 Corinthians 1 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1 Corinthians 14 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Psalms 106 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Isaiah 63 19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
Psalms 123 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Proverbs 10 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Nehemiah 4 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Proverbs 15 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Philippians 2 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Deuteronomy 28 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Malachi 3 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Genesis 42 11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
2 Corinthians 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.
Proverbs 26 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Ecclesiastes 10 3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Mark 13 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
2 Samuel 22 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Hosea 10 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
1 Corinthians 1 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1 Corinthians 8 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Zephaniah 2 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
2 Corinthians 2 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
Matthew 10 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Jude 1 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Kings 3 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Proverbs 9 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Isaiah 66 5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 47 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
Jeremiah 2 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Proverbs 8 5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Jeremiah 14 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Isaiah 14 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?