April 14, 2019
Fish Eyed Fool | Herbert Cooper
Proverbs 3:35 The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame. (NIV)
Proverbs 13:20 Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (NIV)
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. (NIV)
4 Top Foolish Behaviors of a Fool
1. Fools settle for complacency
Proverbs 1:32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; (NIV)
Proverbs 19:24 Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth. (NLT)
Proverbs 21:25 Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.
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Proverbs 22:13 The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed!” (NLT)
Proverbs 13:4 Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. (NLT)
2. Fools have an unteachable heart
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. (NIV)
Proverbs 12:15 The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice. (NIV)
Proverbs 19:20 Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. (NIV)
3. Fools are quick tempered
Proverbs 20:3 It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. (NIV)
Proverbs 12:16 A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted. (NLT)
Proverbs 29:11 Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end. (NIV)
4. Fools remain in their sin
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly. (NIV)
Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is favor. (NKJ)
Proverbs 10:23 A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom. (NIV)
Proverbs 17:12 Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, Rather than a fool in his folly. (NKJV)
Proverbs 17:12 It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in foolishness. (NLT)
