29 Bible Verses about Not Knowing People

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

until there arose a different king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell."

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

If your brother isn't near to you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

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

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

The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you do not know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

I will scatter them also 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 for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you."

Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown to me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not know.

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

"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they do not know the voice of strangers."

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

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

I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ,

And then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

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

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

He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'