13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Ignorance

With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand."

They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

"They do not know how to do what is right." (The Lord is speaking.) "They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the Lord's presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death 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."