24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

Righteous Father, and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:

being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing; in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth,

And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination. God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

but he who knew it not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom men have committed much, they will ask from him the more.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through inadvertence against any of the commandments of Jehovah in things that ought not to be done, and do any of them;

Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him.

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.

His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber: and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, to whose voice I am to hearken to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.

They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father.

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;