13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance
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Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.
Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.
"They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."
But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to his threshing floor.
For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,
Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel.
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, who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.
the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."