49 Bible Verses about ignorance

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they have not known him who sent me.

For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

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

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

But they know not the thoughts of LORD, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

John answered them, saying, I immerse in water, but amidst you stands him whom ye know not.

Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou had known the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, Give me to drink, thou would have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lays upon their heart.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this and the voices of the prophets being read at every Sabbath, they fulfilled, having condemned him.

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

But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those with him,

But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts.

For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.

the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which LORD has commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them,

And if a soul sins, and does any of the things which LORD has commanded not to be done, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

And now, brothers, I know that ye did it from ignorance, as also your rulers.

And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, Ye will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and the immersion that I am immersed ye will be immersed.

Peter said to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin, but now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remains.

So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?

And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon. And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee. read more.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels. And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he does not know.

The wind blows where it will, and thou hear the sound of it, but know not from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is begotten from the Spirit.

So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

The wind blows where it will, and thou hear the sound of it, but know not from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is begotten from the Spirit.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

But they know not the thoughts of LORD, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.