But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

Fools say to themselves, "There is no God!" They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.

I tell the wicked not to be arrogant;

I tell them to stop their boasting."

My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?

"Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?

Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

Blind fools! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!

You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.

Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."

Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?"

He forms all their thoughts and knows everything they do.

God made our ears---can't he hear? He made our eyes---can't he see?

This is a message about Israel from the LORD, the LORD who spread out the skies, created the earth, and gave life to man. He says,

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!