40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

But all this they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him who sent me.

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;

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

John answered them, "I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know.

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked 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 knew me, you would know my Father also."

Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts.

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

And he answered them, "Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

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

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

For this people's heart has grown dull. And their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and they understand with their hearts, and turn so that I should heal them.'

And since they did not see fit to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a base mind, to do what ought not to be done.

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water,

But he who did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask the more.

Even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor, I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

They said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized;

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

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.

You say, "I am rich; I have become wealthy, and have need of nothing"and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

And the people stood watching; but even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;

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