'Simple' in the Bible

“Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God has commanded us.’ So you equipped every man with weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;Holiness adorns Your house,O Lord, forever.

The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

A highway will be there, and a roadway;And it will be called the Holy Way.The unclean will not travel on it,But it will be for those who walk on the way [the redeemed];And fools will not wander on it.

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- to Asshur they have gone.

'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

'The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.

I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood [on the doorposts], so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them (the firstborn of Israel).

But above all, my fellow believers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but let your yes be [a truthful] yes, and your no be [a truthful] no, so that you may not fall under judgment.