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13 Bible Verses about EDUCATIONAL IGNORANCE

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 8:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

Proverbs 1:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

James 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Titus 1:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Isaiah 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.