40 Bible Verses about ignorance

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

But all these things will they do to you, for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

For as I passed along and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD: him therefore whom ye worship without knowing him, I proclaim unto you.

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

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts:

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you whom ye know not.

Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father: and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

He was in the world, and the world was made by him; yet the world knew him not.

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

But the veil lieth on their heart when Moses is read until this day.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, neither knowing him, nor the sayings of the prophets, which are read very sabbath-day, have fulfilled them, in condemning him.

And he answering said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made them, made them male and female from the beginning?

But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him?

For in the resurrection,

For the heart of this people is waxed fat, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed: lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them.

And as they were not careful to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind, to do things not expedient, Filled with all injustice, maliciousness, covetousness, wickedness:

For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God of old the heavens were and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water,

But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For to whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required; and to whom they have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

having put me into the ministry, Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and a reviler; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

And now, brethren, I know that thro' ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with.

Peter saith to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good, I find not.

Jesus said to them, If ye had been blind, ye would have had no sin. But now ye say, We see: therefore your sin remaineth.

Because thou sayst, I am rich, and have inriched myself, and have need of nothing, and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts:

The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou hearest the found thereof, but canst not tell, whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou hearest the found thereof, but canst not tell, whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts:

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;