What Does the Bible Say About Foolish Women?

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Job 2:9-10 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 1:21 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 5:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Job 2:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

1 Peter 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Job 27:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

Job 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”

Psalm 74:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.

Job 19:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Job 2:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.”

Revelation 14:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Job 42:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Romans 11:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Amos 3:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it? “For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Job 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

1 Chronicles 21:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

50 Bible Verses about Foolish Women

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 2:9-10 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:21 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 5:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 2:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:1-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:1-36 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 27:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 74:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 19:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 2:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 14:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 42:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 11:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 3:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 21:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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