29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, "Whose son is this young man, Abner?" Abner replied, "As surely as you live, O king, I don't know."

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don't even know where they came from!"

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.'"

Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you.

Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband -- how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize.

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.' Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste."

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet -- see! -- we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!'

But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I do not know you!'

Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, 'Lord, let us in!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.'

But he will reply, 'I don't know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!'

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!'