The word in Scripture

Folly in the Bible

The word folly appears 37 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Folly is the moral foolishness that forgets God. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What folly means in the Bible

Folly is the moral foolishness that forgets God.

Where the word folly appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word folly appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.”Job 24:12

“This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.”Psalms 49:13

“I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.”Psalms 85:8

“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”Proverbs 14:29

“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”Proverbs 16:22

“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”Ecclesiastes 1:17

“Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”Isaiah 9:17

“And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.”Jeremiah 23:13