Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He was in the world, and the world by him was made: and yet the world knew him not.

New American Standard Bible

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

King James Version

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Holman Bible

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

International Standard Version

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

A Conservative Version

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.

American Standard Version

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.

Amplified

He (Christ) was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

An Understandable Version

[Actually] He was in the world [already], for the world came into being through Him, but the world did not acknowledge Him.

Anderson New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Bible in Basic English

He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

Common New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

Daniel Mace New Testament

he was in the world, even the world that had been made by him, but the world knew him not.

Darby Translation

He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not.

Godbey New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

Goodspeed New Testament

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

John Wesley New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made by him; yet the world knew him not.

Julia Smith Translation

He was in the world, and the world was by him, and the world knew him not.

King James 2000

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

Modern King James verseion

He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him.

Moffatt New Testament

he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;

Montgomery New Testament

He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.

NET Bible

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

New Heart English Bible

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not recognize him.

Noyes New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.

Sawyer New Testament

He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.

The Emphasized Bible

In the world, he was, and, the world, through him, came into existence, and, the world, knew him not.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Twentieth Century New Testament

He was in the world; and through him the world came into being--yet the world did not know him.

Webster

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Weymouth New Testament

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

Williams New Testament

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

World English Bible

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

Worrell New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world knew Him not.

Worsley New Testament

He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and yet the world knew Him not:

Youngs Literal Translation

in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He was
ἦν 
En 
was, were, had been, had, taught , stood , , vr was
Usage: 410

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the world
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109
Usage: 109
Usage: 109

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

him



Usage: 0
Usage: 0

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 1:10

Images John 1:10

Prayers for John 1:10

Context Readings

The Prologue To John's Gospel

9 That was a true light, which lighteneth all men that come into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world by him was made: and yet the world knew him not. 11 He came among his own, and his own received him not.

Cross References

John 17:25

O righteous father, the very world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

1 John 3:1

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

Genesis 11:6-9

And the LORD said, "See, the people is one and have one tongue among them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that they have purposed to do.

Genesis 16:13

And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying, "I am the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt.

Genesis 18:33

And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place.

Exodus 3:4-6

And when the LORD saw that he came for to see, he called unto him out of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." And he answered, "Here am I."

Jeremiah 10:11-12

As for their gods, it may well be said of them, "They are gods, that made neither heaven nor earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven."

Matthew 11:27

All things are given unto me of my father: And no man knoweth the son, but the father; neither knoweth any man the father, save the son, and he to whom the son will open him.

John 1:5

And the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:18

No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten son, which is in the father's bosom, hath declared him.

John 5:17

And Jesus answered them, "My father worketh hitherto, and I work."

Acts 14:17

Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

Acts 17:24-27

God, that made the world, and all that are in it, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, he dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world, through wisdom, knew not God in the wisdom of God: it pleased God through foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

which wisdom none of the rulers of the world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Hebrews 1:2-3

but in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath made heir of all things: by whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 11:3

Through faith we understand that the world was ordained, by the word of God: and that things which are seen, were made of things which are not seen.

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