Bible Verses About Lack of Knowledge
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lack of knowledge, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,022 votes, led by Hosea 4:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lack of Knowledge
Hosea 4:6555 votes
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 5:13324 votes
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 1:29155 votes
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
Proverbs 19:2138 votes
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Proverbs 10:21134 votes
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Ephesians 4:18125 votes
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:
Romans 10:17109 votes
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
John 8:32106 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Proverbs 1:3-897 votes
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 1:794 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ephesians 1:17-2183 votes
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:
Matthew 22:2980 votes
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Jeremiah 4:2278 votes
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 1:576 votes
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 24:3-469 votes
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
1 Timothy 2:469 votes
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 4:1264 votes
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.
Romans 10:2-362 votes
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Proverbs 1:2261 votes
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Luke 11:2861 votes
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
1 John 5:458 votes
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 Corinthians 14:2052 votes
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Romans 8:749 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Proverbs 18:1545 votes
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Luke 4:443 votes
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
What does the Bible say about lack of knowledge?
Readers most often cite Hosea 4:6 on the subject of lack of knowledge. Across 4,022 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 5:13, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 19:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.