13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance

Concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be without knowledge.

The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!

They do not know the way of peace. There is no justice on their highways. They made their paths crooked. Those who walk on them will never know peace.

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.

They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.

They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

After those generations were gathered to their fathers (died) another generation followed them. This new generation did not know Jehovah or the works he had done for Israel.

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart. They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).

The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).

the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.

The light will shine on them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. It will guide our feet into the way of peace.