What Does the Bible Say About Illiterate?

Isaiah 29:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

1 John 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For there are three that testify:

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

2 Peter 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Acts 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

21 Bible Verses about Illiterate

Isaiah 29:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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21 Bible Verses about Illiterate

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Isaiah 29:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes