Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

New American Standard Bible

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Righteous Father!
The world has not known You.
However, I have known You,
and these have known that You sent Me.

International Standard Version

"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

A Conservative Version

And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

American Standard Version

O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

Amplified

“O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You [and the revelation of Your mercy], yet I have always known You; and these [believers] know [without any doubt] that You sent Me;

An Understandable Version

Righteous Father, the world does not know you but I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Anderson New Testament

Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Bible in Basic English

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

Common New Testament

O righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you; and these know that you sent me.

Daniel Mace New Testament

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

Darby Translation

Righteous Father, and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Godbey New Testament

Righteous Father, indeed the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and they know that thou didst send me;

Goodspeed New Testament

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

John Wesley New Testament

Righteous Father, tho' the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Julia Smith Translation

O just Father, the world knew thee not: but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.

King James 2000

O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these [men] have come to know that you sent me.

Modern King James verseion

O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me.

Moffatt New Testament

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

Montgomery New Testament

O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me.

NET Bible

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

New Heart English Bible

Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Noyes New Testament

Righteous Father! and yet the world knew thee not! but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.

Sawyer New Testament

and, righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou didst send me.

The Emphasized Bible

Righteous Father! And so, the world, came not to know thee; but, I, came to know thee, and, these, came to know that, thou, didst send me forth:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Righteous Father! though the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Twentieth Century New Testament

O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

Williams New Testament

Righteous Father, although the world did not know you, I did know you, and these men have come to know that you sent me,

World English Bible

Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Worrell New Testament

O righteous Father! and the world knew Thee not; but I knew Thee, and these knew that Thou didst send Me;

Worsley New Testament

O righteous Father, the world indeed hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent me.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
δίκαιος 
Dikaios 
Usage: 57

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

the world
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

σέ 
Se 
σέ 
Se 
thee, thou, thy house, not tr
thee, thou, thy house, not tr
Usage: 110
Usage: 110

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

I
ἐγώ 
Ego 
I, my, me, not tr
Usage: 174

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147
Usage: 147

and

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

οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται 
Houtos 
this, these, he, the same, this man, she, they,
Usage: 258

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

thou
σύ 
Su 
thou
Usage: 132

ἀποστέλλω 
Apostello 
Usage: 73

Context Readings

Jesus Prays For The Unity Of Believers

24 "Father, I will that they, which thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me. For thou lovedest me before the making of the world. 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. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, be in them, and that I be in them."


Cross References

John 7:29

I know him: For I am of him, and he hath sent me."

John 15:21

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they have not known him that sent me.

John 17:8

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and know surely that I came out from thee: and do believe that thou didst send me.

John 17:11

And now am I no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy father, keep in thine own name them which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are.

John 8:55

And ye have not known him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you; But I know him, and keep his saying.

John 10:15

As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep,

John 16:3

And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

John 16:27

For the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Isaiah 45:21

Let men draw nigh, let them come hither, and ask counsel one at another, and show forth: "What is he, that told this before?" Or, "Who spake of it, ever since the beginning?" Have not I, the LORD, done it: without whom there is none other God? The true God and Saviour, and there is else none but I.

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.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, and said, "Thou art Christ, the son of the living God."

Luke 10:22

All things are given me of my father. And no man knoweth who the son is, but the father: neither who the father is, save the son, and he to whom the son will show him."

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 3:17

For God sent not his son into the world, to condemn the world: But that the world, through him, might be saved.

John 5:19-20

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The son can do no thing of himself: but that he seeth the father do. For whatsoever he doeth, that doeth the son also.

John 6:19

And when they had rowed about a twenty five or a thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walk on the sea, and to draw nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.

John 8:19

Then said they unto him, "Where is thy father?" Jesus answered, "Ye neither know me, nor yet my father. If ye had known me, ye should have known my father also."

John 16:30

Now know we that thou understandest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee any question. Therefore believe we that thou camest from God."

John 17:3

This is life eternal: that they might know thee, that only very God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

John 17:18

As thou didst sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world;

John 17:21

that they all may be one, as thou father art in me, and I in thee; that they may be also one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 17:23

I am in them, and thou art in me: that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Acts 17:23

For as I passed by and beheld the manner how ye worship your gods, I found an altar wherein was written, Unto the unknown God. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you:

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they might turn from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in me.'

Romans 1:28

And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

Romans 3:11

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God,

Romans 3:26

which God did suffer to show at this time: the righteousness that is allowed of him, that he might be counted just, and a justifier of him which believeth on Jesus.

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 15:34

Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God.

Galatians 4:8-9

Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods:

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 8:11

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

1 John 1:9

If we knowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 5:19-20

We know that we be of God, and that the world is altogether set on mischief.

Revelation 13:8

and all that dwell upon the earth worshipped him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb, which was killed from the beginning of the world.

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