49 Bible Verses about ignorance

For you should now be teaching others, if we look at the time, yet you need to be taught again which are the first elements of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

But they will do all these things unto you for my name's sake, because they do not know him that sent me.

For as I passed by and beheld your sanctuaries, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto you.

Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle dove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.

And they will do these things unto you because they do not know the Father, nor me.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

For they do not know to do right, said the LORD, storing up violence and robbery in their palaces.

But they did not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither did they understand his counsel by which he gathered them as sheaves onto the threshing floor.

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there stands one among you, whom ye know not;

Jesus said unto him, Have I been such a long time with you, and yet thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, 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 unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Then they said unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

But even unto this day when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.

For those that dwell at Jerusalem and their princes, because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female?

But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, and those that were with him, when he was hungry,

Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted, and I should heal them.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, to do those things which are not convenient,

Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the LORD of the hosts has sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore came great wrath from the LORD of the hosts.

Of course, they willingly ignore that the heavens were created of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by the word of God;

But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom much was committed, more will be asked of him.

who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, but I was received unto mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done and shall do any of them,

Finally, if a person commits a sin by doing any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, without doing it knowingly, he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it as did also your princes.

And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and of the baptism that I am baptized with ye shall be baptized;

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my soul for thy sake.

And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now because ye say, We see, therefore your sin abides.

But I was ignorant and did not understand; I was as a beast before thee.

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in the evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

As thou dost not know what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou dost not know the works of God who makes all.

for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him?

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt that he said unto Sarai, his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon; therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. read more.
And it came to pass that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menslaves and maidslaves and she asses and camels. But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.

The wind blows where it desires, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it comes or where it goes; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

But I was ignorant and did not understand; I was as a beast before thee.

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in the evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

As thou dost not know what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou dost not know the works of God who makes all.

for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him?

The wind blows where it desires, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it comes or where it goes; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

For you should now be teaching others, if we look at the time, yet you need to be taught again which are the first elements of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

For they do not know to do right, said the LORD, storing up violence and robbery in their palaces.

But they did not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither did they understand his counsel by which he gathered them as sheaves onto the threshing floor.