13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance

But, concerning the spiritually gifted, brethren, I am not wishing you to be ignorant.

An ox knoweth, his owner, And an ass his masters crib, - Israel, doth not know, My people doth not consider.

the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.

And, I, said, - Only, poor people, are they, - They act foolishly, For they know not the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God!

Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

But, they, know not the purposes of Yahweh, neither have they discerned his counsel, - for he hath gathered them, as sheaves, to a threshing-floor.

For, not knowing God's righteousness and, their own, seeking to establish, unto the righteousness of God, have they not submitted;

As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:

All that generation also, were gathered unto their fathers, - and there arose another generation, after them, who had not known Yahweh, nor even the work which he had wrought for Israel.

Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone, Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed.

the people who were walking in darkness, Have seen a great light, - The dwellers in a land death-shadowed, A light, hath shined upon them.

The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld, - and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.

To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, to guide our feet into a way of peace.