You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn; do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.’”
he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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