13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

"They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.

the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned."

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."