40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me.

For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you.

And these things they will do, because they know neither the Father nor me.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

John answered them, saying: I immerse in water; but there stands one among you whom you know not.

Jesus said to him: Have I been so long with you, and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Jesus answered and said to her: If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

Then they said to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.

But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart:

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, be cause they did not know him, nor the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,

But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

Jesus answered and said to them: You err, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

For the heart of this people has become fat; and with their ears they hear heavily; and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn to me, and I should give them health.

And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;

For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God, the heavens of old had their being as also the earth consisting of water and subsisting by water,

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. To whomever much has been given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have intrusted much, of him will they ask the more.

me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did this, as did also your rulers.

They said to him: "We are able. Jesus said to them: You shall drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed.

Peter said to him: Lord, why can I not follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

Because you say I am rich, and abound in wealth, and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

The Spirit breathes where he pleases, and you hear his voice, but you know not whence he comes, and whither he goes; so is every one that is begotten of the Spirit.

The Spirit breathes where he pleases, and you hear his voice, but you know not whence he comes, and whither he goes; so is every one that is begotten of the Spirit.

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And dividing his clothing into parts, they cast lots.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;