01/14/21 DON'T BE A FOOL OR BE FOOLED

01/14/21 DON'T BE A FOOL OR BE FOOLED

If you are maneuvered into a lie, you've been fooled.
If you welcome and willfully buy into a lie, you're a fool.

Psalms 53:1
1 ... The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Proverbs 10:8
8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:18-19
18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 10:23
23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Proverbs 12:22-23
22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

Proverbs 14:7-9
7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Proverbs 14:15-18
15 The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.
16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
17 He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Proverbs 17:10
10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 17:12
12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 18:2-7
2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
3 When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes.
7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 19:1
1 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Proverbs 24:7-9
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
8 He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.