49 Bible Verses about ignorance

At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.

They will do all these things to you for my name's sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me.

As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To An Unknown God. What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.

But they do these things because they do not know the Father or me.

The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.

They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.

John answered: I baptize in water. There is one in your midst whom you do not know.

Jesus responded: Have I been with you so long a time and you do not know me Philip? He who has seen me has discerned (experienced) (perceived) the Father. And you say, show us the Father?

The world was made through him. He was in the world and the world did not recognize him.

Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.

They said: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You do not know me, nor do you know my Father! If you knew me you would also know my Father.

But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

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

He replied to them: Have you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.'

They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.

They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.'

They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. They made their hearts hard like flint and would not listen to the law, and the words that Jehovah of Hosts sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Great anger came from Jehovah of Hosts!

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,

He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.

I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent aggressor. I was shown mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

to tell the people of Israel: If a person sins unintentionally and does not keep Jehovah's commandments he would have to observe the following rules:

If any of you sin unintentionally by breaking any of Jehovah's commandments, you are guilty and must pay the penalty.

Brothers, I know you acted in ignorance just as your rulers did.

They said: We are able. Jesus replied: The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism that I am baptized you will be baptized.

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

I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

Jesus replied: If you were blind you would have no sin. But you say we see so your sin remains.

I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you.

After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

You do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. Even so you do not know the works of God who creates all.

For he does not know what will be and who can tell him how and when it will be?

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

Who shapes a god and casts a useless and good for nothing idol.

He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say: 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you. read more.
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman. Pharaoh's officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace. He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels. Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.

Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.

The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound of it. Yet you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. It is like this with every one who is born from the Spirit.

I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you.

After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

You do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. Even so you do not know the works of God who creates all.

For he does not know what will be and who can tell him how and when it will be?

The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound of it. Yet you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. It is like this with every one who is born from the Spirit.

At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.

[Jesus said: Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.](This verse not found in older manuscripts.) They cast lots and divided his garments among themselves.

The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.

They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.