24 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God

But they will do all these [things] to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Therefore [although] God has overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these [men] have come to know that you sent me.

not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,

with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] kingdoms that do not call on your name,

being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant, correcting those who are opposed with gentleness, [seeing] whether perhaps God may grant them repentance to a knowledge of the truth,

And {no one takes it to heart}, and [there is] no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in [the] fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make [the] rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"

Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. Therefore [although] God has overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

But the one who did not know and did [things] deserving blows {will be given a light beating}. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him [for] even more.

"Speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'If a person sins by an unintentional wrong from any of Yahweh's commands that should not be {violated}, and he {violates} {any of them}--

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'

An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.

But they will do all these [things] to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

And they will do these [things] because they do not know the Father or me.

His watchmen [are] blind, none of them know. They [are] all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber. And the dogs {have a greedy appetite}; they {are never satisfied}. And they are [the] shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their [own] way, each one for his [own] gain, {every one of them}.

[although I] was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, but I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

For [as I] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing [it], 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 this person.

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

And Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel."

[[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."]] And they cast lots to divide his clothes.

So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also."

with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,