Ignorance
58 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Job 8:9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 11:7–8 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? …
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- Job 28:12–13 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell? …
- Job 28:20–21 From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell? …
- Job 36:26 Indeed, God is great — beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
- Job 36:29 Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
- Job 37:5 God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
- Job 37:15–16 Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? …
- Job 37:19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
- Job 37:23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
- Proverbs 7:6–23 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. …
- Proverbs 8:5 O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
- Proverbs 9:14–18 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, …
- Proverbs 19:2 Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
- Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
- Proverbs 22:3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
- Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11–12 For the more words, the more futility — and how does that profit anyone? …
- Ecclesiastes 7:23–24 All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me. …
- Ecclesiastes 8:6–7 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. …
- Ecclesiastes 8:17 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
- John 13:7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
- Acts 1:7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- 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.
- Acts 17:30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Romans 8:24–26 For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see? …
- 1 Corinthians 2:7–10 No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. …
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
- James 1:5–6 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. …
Punishment of Sins of Abimelech
- Genesis 20:1–18 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar, …
Punishment of Sins of Pharaoh
- Genesis 12:11–17 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman, …
Sins of
- Genesis 20:1–7 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar, …
- Leviticus 4:1–35 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
- Leviticus 5:4–19 Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil— in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath— even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter. …
- Leviticus 22:14 If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
- Numbers 15:22–29 Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses— …
- Ezekiel 3:18 If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
- Ezekiel 33:8 If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
- Ezekiel 45:20 You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
- Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
- Luke 12:48 But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.
- 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.
- John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- Acts 3:14–15 You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. …
- Acts 3:17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
- 1 Corinthians 2:8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
- Galatians 1:13–16 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. …
- Ephesians 4:18–19 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. …
- 1 Timothy 1:12–13 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, that He considered me faithful and appointed me to service. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.