Bible Verses about “lack of knowledge”
The Bible contains 25 verses about lack of knowledge across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“‹And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.›”
“So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
“¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
“¶ Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:”
“A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
“And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”
“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:”
“¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
“To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;”
“To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.”
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”
“¶ Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.”
“Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:”
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:”
“Jesus answered and said unto them, ‹Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.›”
“And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,”
“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],”
“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”
“The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.”
“For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”