49 Bible Verses about ignorance

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having sent me.

For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.

Also the stork in the heavens knew her appointment; and the turtle-dove, and the swallow, and the twitterer watched the time of their coming; and my people knew not the judgment of Jehovah.

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me.

. The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.

And they knew not the purposes of Jehovah, and they understood not his counsel for he gathered them as sheaves of the threshing-floor.

John answered them saying, I immerse in water: but he stands the midst of you, whom ye know not;

Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?,

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

And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.

Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye had known my Father also.

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart

For they dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, and the voices of the prophets which being read in every sabbath, having judged, they filled up.

And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,

And he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they with him;

And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Ye are led astray, not having known the writings, nor the power of God.

For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

And they will say to God, Depart from us; and we desired not the knowledge of thy ways.

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing. And their heart they set a diamond from hearing the instruction and the words which Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there will be great wrath from Jehovah of armies.

For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:

And he not having known, and having done things worthy of blows, shall be skinned with few. And to every one to whom much was given, shall much be required of him: and with whom they have deposited much, they will ask of him the more.

Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a saul shall sin in error from all the commands of Jehovah which shall not be done, and doing from after any of them:

And if a soul shall sin and do one from all the commands of Jehovah which shall not be done; and he knew not, and he was guilty, and bore his sin.

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

And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Truly the cup which I drink shall ye drink; and the immersion with which I am immersed, shall ye be immersed.

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

For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.

We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.

As thou wilt not know what the way of the spirit, as the bones in the womb of her being filled, so thou shalt not know the work of God who will make all.

For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sarai his wife, Behold, now I knew that thou wert a fair woman to see. And it shall be when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee they will permit to live. Say, now, thou my sister, that it shall be well to me because of thee, and my soul shall live by means of thee. read more.
And it shall be when Abram goes to Egypt, and the Egyptians will see the woman that she was very fair. And Pharaoh's rulers will see her, and will praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman shall be taken into Pharaoh's house. And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels. And Jehovah will touch Pharaoh with great strokes, and his house on account of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not

The wind, where it wills, blows, and its voice thou hearest, but thou knowest not whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one having been born of the Spirit.

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.

As thou wilt not know what the way of the spirit, as the bones in the womb of her being filled, so thou shalt not know the work of God who will make all.

For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

The wind, where it wills, blows, and its voice thou hearest, but thou knowest not whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one having been born of the Spirit.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

. The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.

And they knew not the purposes of Jehovah, and they understood not his counsel for he gathered them as sheaves of the threshing-floor.