Ignorance

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

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? They are higher than the heavens— what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol— what can you know?
• 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? No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
• Job 28:20–21 From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell? It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
• 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? Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 37:19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

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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, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him…
• Leviticus 4:1–35 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them: If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin…
• 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. If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,
• 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— all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come— and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of th…
• 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.

Instances of 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, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and o…

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, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him…