ignorance

¹⁸having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

⁶My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.

³⁰And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.

²Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good. And whoever hurries with his feet will stumble.

³The clever saw evil and hid himself. The innocent continued on and was afflicted with damage.

³⁴Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.” And truly, dividing his garments, they cast lots.

¹Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁵But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

⁵O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.

²¹Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. ²²Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?’ ²³And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’

¹³For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy, ¹⁶for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”

⁷Jesus responded and said to him: “What I am doing, you do not now understand. But you shall understand it afterward.”

⁶And if the watchman sees the sword approaching, and he does not sound the trumpet, and so the people do not guard themselves, and the sword arrives and takes some of their lives, certainly these have been taken due to their own iniquity. But I will attribute their blood to the hand of the watchman.

¹⁷And now, brothers, I know that you did this through ignorance, just as your leaders also did.