57 Bible Verses about Knowing God

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.

The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

"Yes, God is great -- beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects -- bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

The one who says "I have come to know God" and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

"And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, 'Know the Lord,' since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man's spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God.

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

For God, who said "Let light shine out of darkness," is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God -- a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ's full stature.

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.

Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God -- I say this to your shame!

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the Lord's presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says, 'Here I am.'"

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

For recognition of the Lord's sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.