Ignorance
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Ignorance’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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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?
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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.
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For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
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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?
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All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
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That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
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For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
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For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
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John 13:7 NT
Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
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Acts 1:7 NT
He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
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Acts 17:23 NT
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
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Acts 17:30 NT
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
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For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we…
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But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord…
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
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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.
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James 1:5 NT
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.
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James 1:6 NT
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.
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Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. But God…