Topic

Lack Of Knowledge

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Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Proverbs 1:29

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Proverbs 19:2

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

John 8:32

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Romans 10:17

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Proverbs 1:3–8

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Ephesians 1:17–21

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Proverbs 24:3–4

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Luke 11:28

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Romans 10:2–3

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. — read the full passage →

1 John 5:4

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Luke 4:4

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

2 Peter 1:2–3

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, — read the full passage →

John 16:13

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Proverbs 2:6

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Job 36:12

But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

Psalms 111:10

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Luke 11:52

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

1 Corinthians 14:38

But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

2 Timothy 2:15

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Proverbs 5:23

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Colossians 1:9

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 1:9–10

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 12:8

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

Matthew 25:1–46

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

2 Timothy 3:7

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:23–26

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. — read the full passage →

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

1 Corinthians 6:3

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Hosea 4:1

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:1–19

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Job 28:28

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Isaiah 55:1

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Luke 16:1–31

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

Revelation 22:18

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

2 Peter 1:5–6

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

2 Peter 1:5

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

2 Timothy 3:16–17

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Proverbs 11:14

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 3:7

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

John 17:3

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Psalms 19:2

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

2 Corinthians 4:6

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Romans 11:33

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Malachi 2:7–8

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 9:10

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Galatians 3:13–14

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” — read the full passage →

Romans 3:1–9:33

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

1 Kings 12:29

He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

Hebrews 5:12–14

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. — read the full passage →

Malachi 2:1–3

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. — read the full passage →

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

1 Timothy 1:13

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Colossians 2:8

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 1:10

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Ephesians 2:8–9

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Mark 13:1

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”

Micah 2:7

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

Jeremiah 5:3–4

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

1 Kings 12:31

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Romans 10:1

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

Luke 20:16–18

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!” — read the full passage →

Mark 12:8–9

They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. — read the full passage →

Zechariah 11:15–17

Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. — read the full passage →

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