lack of knowledge

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.

¹³Because of this, my people have been led away as captives, for they did not have knowledge, and their nobles have passed away from famine, and their multitudes have dried up from thirst.

²⁹For they held hatred for discipline, and they would not accept the fear of the Lord;

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

²¹The lips of the just instruct many. But those who are unlearned shall die in destitution of heart.

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.

³²And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

¹⁷Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

³to understand words of prudence, and to accept the instruction of doctrine, justice and judgment, and equity, ⁴so as to give discernment to little ones, knowledge and understanding to adolescents. ⁵By listening, the wise shall become wiser and the intelligent shall possess governments. ⁶He shall turn his soul to a parable and to its interpretation, to the words of the wise and their enigmas. ⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine. ⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.

²⁹But Jesus responded to them by saying: “You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

¹⁷so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give a spirit of wisdom and of revelation to you, in knowledge of him. ¹⁸May the eyes of your heart be illuminated, so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the wealth of the glory of his inheritance with the saints, ¹⁹and the preeminent magnitude of his virtue toward us, toward we who believe in accord with the work of his powerful virtue, ²⁰which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead and establishing him at his right hand in the heavens, ²¹above every principality and power and virtue and dominion, and above every name that is given, not only in this age, but even in the future age.

²²For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

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.

³By wisdom shall a house be built, and by prudence shall it be strengthened. ⁴By doctrine, the storerooms shall be filled with every substance that is precious and most beautiful.

⁴who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.