40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.

They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.

They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

Why, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their minds,

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

But he said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his companions were hungry?

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,

Yet I know, brothers, that you did not know what you were doing, any more than your leaders did;

They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing;

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,

They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,

They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,