Lack of knowledge

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• Hosea 4:6

  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.

• Isaiah 5:13

  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.

• Proverbs 1:29

  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

• Proverbs 19:2

  Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

• Proverbs 10:21

  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

• Ephesians 4:18

  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:

• John 8:32

  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• Romans 10:17

  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

• Proverbs 1:3–8

  To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: …

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

• Matthew 22:29

  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, 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 unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 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, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, …

• Jeremiah 4:22

  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.

• James 1:5

  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.

• Proverbs 24:3–4

  Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

• 1 Timothy 2:4

  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• Luke 11:28

  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

• Proverbs 1:22

  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

• Romans 10:2–3

  For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

• 1 John 5:4

  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

• 1 Corinthians 14:20

  Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

• Romans 8:7

  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

• Proverbs 18:15

  The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

• Luke 4:4

  And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

• John 16:13

  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

• 2 Peter 1:2–3

  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

• Job 36:12

  But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

• Proverbs 2:6

  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

• Psalms 111:10

  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

• Isaiah 27:11

  When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

• Acts 17:30

  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

• Luke 11:52

  Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

• 1 Corinthians 14:38

  But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

• 2 Peter 3:5

  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

• 2 Timothy 2:15

  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

• Proverbs 15:14

  The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

• Proverbs 5:23

  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

• John 3:16–17

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

• Colossians 1:9

  For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;