Romans 3:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 there is no one who has understanding;
there is no one who seeks God.
Psalm 14:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind
to see if there are any who are wise,
who seek after God.(A)
3 They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.(B)
4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon the Lord?(C)
Psalm 53:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 God looks down from heaven on humankind
to see if there are any who are wise,
who seek after God.(A)
Titus 3:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 8:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,(A)
Read full chapter
Hosea 4:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 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.(A)
Jeremiah 4:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 “For my people are foolish;
they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
but do not know how to do good.”(A)
Isaiah 65:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Righteousness of God’s Judgment
65 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that did not call on my name.(A)
Isaiah 55:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
1 John 5:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true;[a] and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 5.20 Other ancient authorities read know the true God
Romans 1:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 1:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Read full chapter
Matthew 13:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.(A)
Read full chapter
Matthew 13:13-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’(A) 14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.(B)
Hosea 7:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 Israel’s pride testifies against[a] him;
yet they do not return to the Lord their God
or seek him, for all this.(A)
Footnotes
- 7.10 Or humbles
Isaiah 31:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Alliance with Egypt Is Futile
31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
and who rely on horses,
who trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!(A)
Isaiah 27:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.(A)
Isaiah 9:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 The people did not turn to him who struck them
or seek the Lord of hosts.(A)
Proverbs 1:29-30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,(A)
Proverbs 1:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
Proverbs 1:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.(A)
Psalm 94:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?(A)
Psalm 53:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Have they no knowledge, those evildoers,
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon God?(A)
Job 21:15-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 What is the Almighty,[a] that we should serve him?
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’(A)
16 Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement?[b]
The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.(B)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.