'Know' in the Bible

In the same way, unless you speak an intelligible message with your language, how will anyone know what is being said? You'll be talking into the air!

If I don't know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

Otherwise, if you say a blessing with your spirit, how can an otherwise uneducated person say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you're saying?

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that the work that you do for the Lord isn't wasted.

Now I urge you, brothers for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints

Our hope for you is unshaken, because we know that as you share our sufferings, you also share our comfort.

I wrote to you out of great sorrow and anguish of heart along with many tears not to make you sad but to let you know how much love I have for you.

We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

Therefore, we are always confident, and we know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord.

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade people. We ourselves are perfectly known to God. I hope we are also really known to your consciences.

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.

We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.

I know a man who belongs to the Messiah. Fourteen years ago whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows that man was snatched away to the third heaven.

I know that this man whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows

I encouraged Titus to visit you, and I sent along with him the brother you know so well. Titus didn't take advantage of you, did he? We conducted ourselves with the same spirit, didn't we? We took the very same steps, didn't we?

Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?

For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin.

But the churches of the Messiah that are in Judea did not yet know me personally.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.

But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

You know that it was because I was ill that I brought you the gospel the first time.

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

However, that is not the way you came to know the Messiah.

For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

because you know that everyone will receive a reward from the Lord for whatever good he has done, whether he is a slave or free.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way. Do not threaten them, for you know that both of you have the same Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

So that you may know what has happened to me and how I am doing, Tychicus, our dear brother and a faithful minister in service to the Lord, will tell you everything.

I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually caused the gospel to advance.

The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel.

I know that this will result in my deliverance through your prayers and the help that comes from the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah.

Now if I continue living, fruitful labor is the result, so I do not know which I would prefer.

Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will continue to live and be with all of you, so you will mature in the faith and know joy in it.

But you know his proven worth how like a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

You Philippians also know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church participated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except for you.

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.

You know that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is the Lord Messiah whom you are serving!

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

Brothers whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you,

for the gospel we brought did not come to you in words only, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. Indeed, you know what kind of people we proved to be while we were with you, acting on your behalf.

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not a waste of time.

As you know, we suffered persecution and were mistreated in Philippi. Yet we were encouraged by our God to tell you his gospel in spite of strong opposition.

As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!

You know very well that we treated each of you the way a father treats his children.

In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that is what happened.

You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Each of you must know how to control his own body in a holy and honorable manner,

not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.

for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

You know what it is that is now holding him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes.

For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We never lived in idleness among you.

Of course, we know that the Law is good if a person uses it legitimately,

who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth fully.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

That is why I suffer as I do. However, I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I'm convinced that he is able to protect what he has entrusted to me until the day that he comes.

You know that everyone in Asia has abandoned me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

May the Lord grant that he finds mercy on the day he comes again. You know very well how much he assisted me in Ephesus.

Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.

For you know that a person like this is corrupt and keeps on sinning, being self-condemned.

21Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.

For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.

Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, "Know the Lord,' because all of them will know me, from the least important to the most important.

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he could not find any opportunity to repent, even though he begged to repent with tears.

You should know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others.

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,

Resist him and be firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

Therefore, I intend to keep on reminding you about these things, even though you already know them and are firmly established in the truth that you now have.

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, has shown me.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.

And so, dear friends, since you already know these things, continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you may fall from your secure position.

This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.

But the person who hates his brother is in the darkness and lives in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

You have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because lies don't come from truth.

Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.