Ignorance of God
30 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Evidenced by Living in Sin
- Evidenced by not Keeping his Commands
- Evidenced by Want of Love
- False Prophets
- Gentiles
- Ignorance of Christ Is
- Israelites
- Jews
- Leads to Alienation from God
- Leads to Error
- Leads to Idolatry
- Leads to Persecuting Saints
- Leads to Sinful Lusts
- Ministers should Compassionate Those In
- Ministers should Labour to Remove
- Nicodemus
- Paul
- Pharaoh
- Punishment of
- The Wicked Choose
- The Wicked, in a State of
Evidenced by Living in Sin
- Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- 1 John 3:6 No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
Evidenced by not Keeping his Commands
- 1 John 2:4 If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Evidenced by Want of Love
- 1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
False Prophets
- Isaiah 56:10–11 Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. …
Gentiles
- Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Ignorance of Christ Is
- John 8:19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
Israelites
- Psalm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Jews
- Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
Leads to Alienation from God
- Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Leads to Error
- Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
Leads to Idolatry
- Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? …
- Acts 17:29–30 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination. …
Leads to Persecuting Saints
- John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- John 16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
Leads to Sinful Lusts
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Ministers should Compassionate Those In
- Hebrews 5:2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.
- 2 Timothy 2:24–25 And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. …
Ministers should Labour to Remove
- Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
Nicodemus
- John 3:10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
Paul
- 1 Timothy 1:13 I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
Pharaoh
- Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Punishment of
- Psalm 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
The Wicked Choose
- Job 21:14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
The Wicked, in a State of
- Jeremiah 9:3 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- John 17:25 Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
- Acts 17:30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
Related topics
IgnoranceIgnorance of God is No Excuse for SinBlindness
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.