Topic
Lack Of Knowledge
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Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Also, without knowledge the soul <FI>is<Fi> not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.
The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
and the truth shall make you free.'
so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, — read the full passage →
Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, — read the full passage →
For my people <FI>are<Fi> foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons <FI>are<Fi> they, yea, they <FI>are<Fi> not intelligent, Wise <FI>are<Fi> they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. — read the full passage →
who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'
`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, — read the full passage →
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'
Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord! — read the full passage →
and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
The beginning of wisdom <FI>is<Fi> fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise <FI>is<Fi> standing for ever!
the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
`Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'
In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it <FI>is<Fi> not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;
for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,
be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.
for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, — read the full passage →
for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →
The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.
always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, — read the full passage →
for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?
`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,
`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, — read the full passage →
For wisdom <FI>is<Fi> a defense, money <FI>is<Fi> a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom <FI>is<Fi> , She reviveth her possessors.
And He saith to man: --`Lo, fear of the Lord, that <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And to turn from evil <FI>is<Fi> understanding.'
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →
`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,
And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →
With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.
And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →
for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool <FI>is<Fi> near ruin.
Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors.
Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;
Day to day uttereth speech, And night to night sheweth knowledge.
in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;
because <FI>it is<Fi> God who said, Out of darkness light <FI>is<Fi> to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he <FI>is<Fi> . — read the full passage →
The commencement of wisdom <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones <FI>is<Fi> understanding.
Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,' — read the full passage →
What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And--My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.
The priests have not said, `Where <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.
A fountain of life <FI>is<Fi> understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan,
for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, — read the full passage →
And now, to you <FI>is<Fi> this charge, O priests, — read the full passage →
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,
who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did <FI>it<Fi> in unbelief,
See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →
in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;
And as he is going forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith to him, `Teacher, see! what stones! and what buildings!'
Doth the house of Jacob say, `Hath the Spirit of Jehovah been shortened? Are these His doings?' Do not My words benefit the people that is walking uprightly?
Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back. — read the full passage →
My people--its exactors <FI>are<Fi> sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people--thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.
And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;
Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that <FI>is<Fi> to God for Israel, is--for salvation;
He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!' — read the full passage →
and having taken him, they did kill, and cast <FI>him<Fi> forth without the vineyard. — read the full passage →
And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd. — read the full passage →
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