29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

Most Relevant Verses

Exodus 1:8

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

Acts 7:18

until another king arose, who did not know Joseph.

1 Samuel 17:55

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

Isaiah 63:16

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our father; our everlasting Redeemer is thy name.

Deuteronomy 22:2

And even if thy brother is not kin unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

Deuteronomy 21:1

When one is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

1 Samuel 25:11

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

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The LORD shall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, even wood and stone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.

Isaiah 55:5

Behold, thou shalt call a people that thou knowest not, and Gentiles that did not know thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has honoured thee.

Ruth 2:11

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It has fully been showed me all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother and the land of thy nativity and art come three days ago unto a people whom thou didst not know before.

Psalm 35:15

But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease:

2 Samuel 22:44

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of peoples; thou hast kept me to be head of the Gentiles; peoples whom I did not know have served me.

Psalm 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the Gentiles: a people whom I did not know served me.

Psalm 81:5

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

Ezekiel 32:9

I will also make the hearts of many peoples sad when I shall bring thy destruction upon the Gentiles, into the countries which thou hast not known.

Zechariah 7:14

but I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the Gentiles whom they did not know. Thus the land was desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid the desirable land desolate.

John 10:5

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

2 Corinthians 6:9

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

Galatians 1:22

and was unknown by face unto the congregations of Judaea which were in Christ,

Matthew 25:12

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

Luke 13:25

When once the husband of the house is risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not from where ye are,

Luke 13:27

But he shall say unto you, I know you not from where ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

Job 8:18

If he is uprooted from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

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