29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

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

Till another king arose, who knew not Joseph.

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

Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledges us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.

And if your brother is not near unto you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it unto your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall restore it to him again.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him:

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not from where they be?

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually:

The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, of wood and stone.

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

Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not, and nations that knew not you shall run unto you because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done unto your mother-in-law since the death of your husband: and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and are come unto a people which you knew not before.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land became desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

When once the Master of the house is risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know not where you come from:

But he shall say, I tell you, I know not where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have not seen you.