29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

until another king arose who had not known Joseph.

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul lives, O king, I cannot tell.

For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

And if thy brother be not near to thee, or if thou do not know him, then thou shall bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it, and thou shall restore it to him.

If a man is found slain in the land which LORD thy God gives thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it not be known who has smitten him,

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men of whom I know not from where they are?

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,

LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shall set over thee, to a nation that thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers. And there thou shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Behold, thou shall call a nation that thou do not know. And a nation that does not know thee shall run to thee because of LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified thee.

And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown me all that thou have done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband, and how thou have left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and have com

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.

Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony when he went out over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

I will also vex the hearts of many peoples when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou have not known.

But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

And they will, no, not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.

Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged heavenly agents, unaware.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;

And I was unknown by face to the congregations of Judea in Christ,

And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from,

And he will say, I tell you, I know not where ye are from. Depart from me, all ye workmen of unrighteousness.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.