Bible Dictionary: Deceit: The Folly of Fools Is

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Nave's Topical Index

Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Nave's Topical Index

Library

Of Justice, Wisdom, and Folly.
... plain that he regarded them not as fools, but as ... Therefore folly is the erring in
deeds and words, through ... wait for others, and take them by deceit, that they ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xviii of justice wisdom and.htm

Of Lying Defamation.
... for a specimen of Wit, yet it really lifts them among Solomon's fools who make a ...
the same fate, falls under the two edged slander both of deceit and folly. ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section v of lying defamation.htm

Absurd Interpretations of the Marcosians.
... the bow too tightly, [2875] the greater fools do they ... For when the unclean spirit
of folly has gone forth ... prepared them for the reception of deceit, he implants ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xvi absurd interpretations of the.htm

The Acceptable Sacrifice;
... that sin is a foolish thing. Hence it says, 'The foolishness of fools is
folly' (Proverbs 14:24). That is, the foolishness of some ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the acceptable sacrifice.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... Our rash and abrupt proceedings show our folly. ... wise men shall be wise: but a companion
of fools shall be ... all the wit and skill of such wicked men is deceit. ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

God Justified, Though Man Believes Not
... there are plenty, whom you reckon to be fools, who will ... and there it lay dead, killed
by its own folly. ... with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/god justified though man believes.htm

The Ministry.
... Poor fools as we are, we forget that we ourselves ... souls, do you think, Balaam with
his deceit will have ... whom I preached, and whom I beguiled through my folly. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xxii the ministry.htm

A Preservative against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles ...
... to prove that it is a great folly and weakness ... made use of no "philosophy and vain
deceit after the ... We fools, accounted their lives madness; and their end to be ...
/.../a preservative against unsettled notions.htm

Jesus, Pilate and Herod.
... that proves indeed that he is a king of fools.". ... great works were nothing but lies
and deceit, whereby the ... oneself on such a man would be the greatest folly. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/stead/king of the jews/chapter vii jesus pilate and.htm

But Whilst the King Has not that Most Blessed Light...
... of mourning; but the heart of fools is in ... own heart, to measure everything,"even
sin, folly, impiety,"and ... the expression of corruption and deceit, as here ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter vii but whilst the.htm