13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance
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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.
The pathway of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their courses. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them will know peace."
Then I said, "These are only the poor, they're foolish, for they don't know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God.
Because they do not know how to act right," declares the LORD, "they are filling their strongholds with treasures that they took from others by violence into their fortified citadels."
But they don't know the thoughts of the LORD, and they don't understand his tactics, for he will gather them like harvested grain to his threshing floor.
For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.
After that whole generation had died, another generation grew up after them that was not acquainted with the LORD or with what he had done for Israel.
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.
The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."
to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death's shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."