29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

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

until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.

As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know."

For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.

"If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,

Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"

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

A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

"The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."

Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;

"You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:

"I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.

"and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

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

And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.'

When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!'

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'