24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God

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

And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few'stripes . And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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

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

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

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

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

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

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 ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.

They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: