15 Bible Verses about Ignorance Of Evil

“If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the Lord’s commands concerning anything prohibited, he bears the consequences of his guilt.

You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the Lord’s commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,

Or if someone touches anything unclean—a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature—without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Or if he touches human uncleanness—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he is guilty.

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

[Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.”] And they divided His clothes and cast lots.

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they don’t know what makes them stumble.

until an arrow pierces its liver,
like a bird darting into a snare—
he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

A devious heart will be far from me;
I will not be involved with evil.

Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.

I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you.

But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.