IGNORANCE

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• Genesis 12:11

  When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 20:1

  Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 20:4

  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

• Genesis 20:5

  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:6

  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

• Genesis 20:7

  Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

• Genesis 20:8

  Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

• Genesis 20:10

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

• Genesis 20:11

  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

• Genesis 20:12

  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

• Genesis 20:13

  When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

• Genesis 20:14

  Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

• Genesis 20:15

  Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

• Genesis 20:16

  To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

• Genesis 20:17

  Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

• Genesis 20:18

  For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

• Leviticus 4:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 4:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:

• Leviticus 4:3

  if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.

• Leviticus 4:4

  He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 4:5

  The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:6

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:8

  He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

• Leviticus 4:9

  and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away,

• Leviticus 4:10

  as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:11

  The bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,

• Leviticus 4:12

  he shall carry the whole bull outside of the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out, it shall be burned.

• Leviticus 4:13

  “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

• Leviticus 4:14

  when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:15

  The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 4:16

  The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:

• Leviticus 4:17

  and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.

• Leviticus 4:18

  He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:19

  All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.

• Leviticus 4:20

  Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

• Leviticus 4:21

  He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

• Leviticus 4:22

  “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

• Leviticus 4:23

  if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.

• Leviticus 4:24

  He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 4:25

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:26

  All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 4:27

  “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

• Leviticus 4:28

  if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.

• Leviticus 4:29

  He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:30

  The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 4:31

  All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 4:32

  “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

• Leviticus 4:33

  He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:34

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 4:35

  All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:4

  “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

• Leviticus 5:5

  It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

• Leviticus 5:6

  and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

• Leviticus 5:7

  “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 5:8

  He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:10

  He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:11

  “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:12

  He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:13

  The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”

• Leviticus 5:14

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 5:15

  “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

• Leviticus 5:16

  He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:17

  “If anyone sins, and does any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done; though he didn’t know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 5:18

  He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:19

  It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”

• Leviticus 22:14

  “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.

• Numbers 15:22

  “‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,

• Numbers 15:23

  even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;

• Numbers 15:24

  then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

• Numbers 15:25

  The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.

• Numbers 15:26

  All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.

• Numbers 15:27

  “‘If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

• Numbers 15:28

  The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

• Numbers 15:29

  You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

• Job 8:9

  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

• Job 11:7

  “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

• Job 11:8

  They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 28:12

  “But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:13

  Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

• Job 28:20

  Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:21

  Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

• Job 36:26

  Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

• Job 36:29

  Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

• Job 37:5

  God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.

• Job 37:15

  Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

• Job 37:16

  Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

• Job 37:19

  Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

• Job 37:23

  We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

• Psalms 139:6

  This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

• Proverbs 7:6

  For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

• Proverbs 7:7

  I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

• Proverbs 7:10

  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• Proverbs 7:12

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

• Proverbs 7:13

  So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

• Proverbs 7:14

  “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

• Proverbs 7:15

  Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Proverbs 7:17

  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• Proverbs 7:18

  Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

• Proverbs 7:19

  For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

• Proverbs 7:20

  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

• Proverbs 7:21

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

• Proverbs 7:22

  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

• Proverbs 7:23

  Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

• Proverbs 8:5

  You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

• Proverbs 9:14

  She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

• Proverbs 9:15

  To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 9:18

  But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

• Proverbs 19:2

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

• Proverbs 20:24

  A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

• Proverbs 22:3

  A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

• Proverbs 27:1

  Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

• Proverbs 27:12

  A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

• Proverbs 30:4

  Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

• Ecclesiastes 3:11

  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

• Ecclesiastes 6:11

  For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

• Ecclesiastes 6:12

  For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 7:23

  All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from me.

• Ecclesiastes 7:24

  That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

• Ecclesiastes 8:6

  For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

• Ecclesiastes 8:7

  For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

• Ecclesiastes 8:17

  then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

• Ecclesiastes 11:5

  As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

• Jeremiah 10:23

  Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

• Ezekiel 3:18

  When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

• Ezekiel 33:6

  But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

• Ezekiel 33:8

  When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

• Ezekiel 45:20

  So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall make atonement for the house.

• 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.

• Luke 12:48

  but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

• Luke 23:34

  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

• John 13:7

  Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• Acts 1:7

  He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

• Acts 3:14

  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

• Acts 3:15

  and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

• Acts 3:17

  “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

• Acts 17:23

  For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

• Acts 17:30

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

• Romans 8:24

  For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

• Romans 8:25

  But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

• Romans 8:26

  In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

• 1 Corinthians 2:7

  But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

• 1 Corinthians 2:9

  But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• 1 Corinthians 2:10

  But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

• 1 Corinthians 3:19

  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

• 1 Corinthians 13:9

  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

• 1 Corinthians 13:12

  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

• Galatians 1:13

  For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

• Galatians 1:14

  I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

• Galatians 1:15

  But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

• Galatians 1:16

  to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

• 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;

• Ephesians 4:19

  who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• 1 Timothy 1:12

  And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

• 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.

• 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.

• James 1:6

  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.