13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance
Most Relevant Verses
Now concerning what comes from the Spirit: brothers, I do not want you to be unaware.
The ox knows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
but Israel does not know;
My people do not understand.”
They have not known the path of peace,
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
Then I thought:
They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
The people are incapable of doing right—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
those who store up violence and destruction
in their citadels.
But they do not know the Lord’s intentions
or understand His plan,
that He has gathered them
like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.
That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works He had done for Israel.
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts. They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
a light has dawned
on those living in the land of darkness.
The people who live in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those living in the shadowland of death,
light has dawned.
to shine on those who live in darkness
and the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
