13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

“But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,
And they do not understand His purpose;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

The people who walk in darkness
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To guide our feet into the way of peace.”