Ignorant Men

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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

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

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

• Fish

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

• Corruption
• Power

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

• Heathen
• Adultery
• Character

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 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: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.