24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God
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Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.
Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power,
so that we may not be outsmarted by Satan. After all, we are not unaware of his intentions.
In the past I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief,
My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.
For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.
For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
For as I was walking around and looking closely at the objects you worship, I even found an altar with this written on it: "To an unknown god.' So I am telling you about the unknown object you worship.
Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.
For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.
Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.
Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.
He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.
But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,
Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.
Jesus answered them, "Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power?
"Speak to the Israelis and tell them that if a person inadvertently sins with respect to any of the LORD's commands that should not be violated, but nevertheless he disobeys one of them,
He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.
"If a person sins and does what the LORD commanded is not to be done, and if he didn't know that he had sinned, then he will be guilty nevertheless.
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They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.
Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,
"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Sinful lusts
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.
Ignorance of God » Punishment of
in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Compassionate those in
He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.
A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong, and gentle when refuting opponents. After all, maybe God will allow them to repent and to come to a full knowledge of the truth,
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Idolatry
No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"
So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill. Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,
Ignorance of God » Is no excuse for sin
But the servant who did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating. Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted."
"Speak to the Israelis and tell them that if a person inadvertently sins with respect to any of the LORD's commands that should not be violated, but nevertheless he disobeys one of them,
Ignorance of God » Exemplified
For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Living in sin
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.
No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn't seen him or known him.
Ignorance of God » The wicked choose
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
"They say to God, "Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Persecuting saints
They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » False prophets
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep! Meanwhile, the dogs have a mighty appetite they can never get enough. And as for them, they are the shepherds who lack understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, each and every one.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Paul
In the past I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief,
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Alienation from God
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Gentiles
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power,
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Labor to remove
For as I was walking around and looking closely at the objects you worship, I even found an altar with this written on it: "To an unknown god.' So I am telling you about the unknown object you worship.
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Not keeping his commands
The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Want of love
The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Pharaoh
Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don't know about the LORD, nor will I let Israel go!"
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Jews
Jesus kept saying, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.
Ignorance of God » Ignorance of Christ is
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Ignorance of God
in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.