49 Bible Verses about ignorance

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

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

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the LORD's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them,

"If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.

"And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

And they said to him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

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.

Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake." read more.
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. But the LORDafflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments.

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

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.

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

"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.