24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!”

"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them,

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber; And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

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

However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

So they were saying 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.”

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.