20 Bible Verses about Ignorance of God
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Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;
Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Jesus answered and said to them: You err, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;
For being ignorant of God's plan of justification, and seeking to establish their own plan of justification, they have not submitted to God's plan of justification.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you.
But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions:
For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery lest you be wise in your own conceit that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gen tiles shall have come in.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God, the heavens of old had their being as also the earth consisting of water and subsisting by water,
Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and plain men, they were astonished; and they also recognized them, that they had been with Jesus;
And Jesus answered and said to them: Do you not err for this reason, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, because he himself is beset with infirmity:
And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did this, as did also your rulers.
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Ignorance of God » The wicked, in a state of
But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me.
Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:
Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Sinful lusts
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;
Ignorance of God » Punishment of
in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Compassionate those in
being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, because he himself is beset with infirmity:
and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils, in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth,
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Idolatry
Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhood is like gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured by art and the device of man. Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:
Ignorance of God » Is no excuse for sin
but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. To whomever much has been given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have intrusted much, of him will they ask the more.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Living in sin
They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.
Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him.
Ignorance of God » The wicked choose
And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Persecuting saints
But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me.
And these things they will do, because they know neither the Father nor me.
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » False prophets
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Paul
me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Alienation from God
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Gentiles
But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered and said to them: You err, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Labor to remove
For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you.
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Not keeping his commands
He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Want of love
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Pharaoh
Ignorance of God » Exemplified » Jews
And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And dividing his clothing into parts, they cast lots.
Ignorance of God » Ignorance of Christ is
Then they said to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Ignorance of God
in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;
