40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

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

For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you.

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

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,

John answered them saying, I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you know not.

Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?

He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.

Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says 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 have neither known me nor my Father; if you had known me you would also have known my Father.

but to this day when Moses is read a vail lies upon their minds;

For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him];

And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female?

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

And Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

for the hearts of this people have become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And from any one to whom much is given, much will be demanded; and of him with whom men have deposited much, they will ask more.

who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;

And now, brothers, I know that you did it without knowledge, as did also your rulers;

And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You shall drink of the cup of which I drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am 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 in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see, your sin remains.

For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that has been born of the Spirit.

The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that has been born of the Spirit.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And distributing his garments they cast lots [for them].

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,