24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

The Lord says, "These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!

He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness,

And the Lord's slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient, correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination. Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

But the one who did not know his master's will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them --

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, 'These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.'

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand."

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze. The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.

For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an unknown god.' Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.

The one who says "I have come to know God" and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel!"

[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.