Gen 22:12 – “for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Ex 2:25 – “God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.”
Ex 3:7 – “Then the LORD said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings”
Deut 11:2 – “your children who have not known or seen it”
Deut 29:16, 17 – “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt… And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.”
1 Sam 12:17 – “I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king.”
1 Sam 14:38 – “And Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.”
1 Sam 18:28 – “Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David”
1 Sam 23:22, 23 – “Know and see the place where his foot is… See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides”
1 Sam 24:11 – “See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands.”
1 Kings 20:7 – “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble”
2 Kings 5:7 – “Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
Job 5:24 – “You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.”
Job 11:11 – “For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?”
Ps 31:7 – “you have known the distress of my soul”
Ecc 8:16 – “I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth”
Is 5:19 – “let him speed his work that we may see it…that we may know it!”
Is 6:9 – “Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’”
Is 29:15 – “Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Is 41:20 – “that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this”
Is 44:9 – “Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.”
Is 44:18 – “They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see”
Is 61:9 – “their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them”
Is 66:14 – “you shall see… and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants”
Jer 2:19 – “Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God”
Jer 2:23 – “Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done”
Jer 5:1 – “look and take note!”
Jer 12:3 – “but you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you”
Jer 18:23 – “Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight”
Jer 29:23 – “I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.’”
Ezek 14:23 – “They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD.”
Hos 5:3 – “I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me”
Matt 24:33; Mark 13:29 – “So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.”
Mark 6:38 – “‘Go and see.’ And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
Luke 21:30 – “As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.”
Luke 21:31 – “So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.”
John 1:48 – “Nathanael said to him, ‘How do you know me?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you’”
John 3:11 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen”
Wise, wisdom (חָכְמָה ,חָכָם)
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
2 Sam 14:20 – In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”
Job 34:2 – “Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
Ps 51:6 – Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Eccl 8:1 – Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Hos 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Understand (בִּין)
Neh 8:12 – And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Neh 10:28 – The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
Job 15:9 – What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Ps 92:6 – The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
Learn (לָמַד)
Prov 30:3 – I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
Seek out (תּוּר,בָּקַשׁ)
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Faith, believe (πίστις, πιστεύω)
John 6:69 – “and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God”
Phrases
Do you not know?
Zech 4:5 – “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
Rom 6:16 – “Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?”
Rom 11:2 – “Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?”
1 Cor 3:16 – “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
1 Cor 5:6 – “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?”
1 Cor 6:2 – “Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?”
1 Cor 6:3 – “Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!”
1 Cor 6:9 – “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,”
1 Cor 6:15 – “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!”
1 Cor 6:16 – “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For as it is written, ‘The two will become one flesh’”
1 Cor 6:19 – “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,”
1 Cor 9:13 – “Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?”
1 Cor 9:24 – “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it”
James 4:4 – “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
If I/you had known
1 Sam 20:9 – “And Jonathan said, ‘Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?’”
Matt 12:7 – “And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.”
Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39 – “if the master of the house had known”
John 4:10 – “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water”
John 8:19 – “Jesus answered, ‘You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also’”
John 14:7 – “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Things the Israelites did not know
Nation, land (Num 14:31; Deut 11:2; 28:33, 36, 64; 2 Sam 22:44; Is 55:5; Jer 9:16; 10:25; 15:14; 16:13; 17:4; 22:28; Ezek 32:9 ; Zech 7:14)
Gen 41:39 – “Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.’”
Gen 45:1 – “Joseph made himself known to his brothers”
Ex 6:3 – “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them”
Ex 33:12 – “you have not let me know whom you will send with me”
Ex 33:13 – “please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight”
Lev 4:23, 28 – “the sin which he has committed is made known to him”
Num 12:6 – “I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.”
Deut 8:3 – “that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone”
Josh 3:4 – “Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”
Judges 16:9 – “the secret of his strength was not known”
Ruth 3:3 – “do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking”
1 Sam 10:8 – “Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”
1 Sam 14:12 – “And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, ‘Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.’”
1 Sam 16:3 – “invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do”
1 Sam 22:3 – “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
1 Sam 28:15 – “Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”
2 Sam 7:21 – “Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.”
1 Chron 17:19 – “For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.”
Neh 4:15 – “our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan”
Neh 9:14 – “You made known to them your holy Sabbath”
Esther 2:22 – “And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai”
Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”
Job 13:23 – “How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.”
Job 32:7 – “I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’”
Job 37:19 – “Teach us what we shall say to him”
Job 38:12 – “Have you… caused the dawn to know its place”
Ps 9:20 – “Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men!”
Ps 16:11 – “You make known to me the path of life”
Ps 25:4 – “Make me to know your ways, O LORD”
Ps 25:14 – “The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.”
Ps 39:4 – “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!”
Ps 48:3 – “Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress”
Ps 51:6 – “you teach me wisdom in the secret heart”
Ps 77:14 – “You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples”
Ps 90:12 – “teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom”
Ps 98:2 – “The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.”
Ps 103:7 – “He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel”
Ps 109:27 – “Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!”
Ps 119:79 – “that they may know God’s testimonies”
Ps 119:125 – “that I may know Your testimonies”
Ps 143:8 – “make me know the way I should go”
Ps 145:12 – “to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom”
Prov 10:9 – “he who makes his ways crooked will be found out”
Prov 12:16 – “the vexation of a fool is known at once”
Prov 14:33 – “wisdom… makes itself known even in the midst of fools”
Prov 22:19 – “That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.”
Prov 22:21 – “to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?”
Is 40:13, 14 – “what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand?”
Is 41:22, 23 – “Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.”
Is 64:2 – “to make your name known to your adversaries”
Is 66:14 – “you shall see… and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants”
Jer 11:18 – “The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds”
Jer 16:21 – “behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD.”
Jer 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known”
Ezek 20:5 – “I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt”
Ezek 20:11 – “I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules”
Ezek 39:7 – “my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel”
Ezek 43:11 – “make known to them the design of the temple… and make known to them as well all its statutes”
Ezek 44:23 – “They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean”
Dan 8:19 – “He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation”
Jonah 1:7 – “And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.”
Hos 5:9 – “among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure”
Hab 3:2 – “O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known”
Matt 10:26; Luke 8:17 – “nothing is… hidden that will not be known”
Matt 13:11; Luke 8:10 – “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God”
Luke 10:22 – “no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
Luke 12:2 – “Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known”
Luke 24:35 – “Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread”
Acts 9:24 – “but their plot became known to Saul”
2 Cor 2:4 – “For I wrote to you… to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.”
Gal 2:9 – “James and Cephas and John… perceived the grace that was given to me”
Have faith in, believe
Num 32:23 – “you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out”
2 Kings 10:10 – “Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”
1 Chron 29:17 – “I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness”
2 Chron 13:5 – “Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?”
Job 13:18 – “Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.”
Job 19:25 – “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.”
Job 30:23 – “For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.”
Job 42:2 – “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”
Ps 4:3 – “But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself”
Ps 20:6 – “now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand”
Ps 56:9 – “Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.”
Ps 78:3 – things they did not experience themselves but believe in because told to them by their fathers
Ps 140:12 – “I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.”
Ecc 8:12 – “Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.”
Ecc 11:9 – “Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.”
Jer 26:15 – “Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Jer 42:19, 22 – “Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
Matt 22:16 – “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully”
Mark 12:14 – “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion”
Luke 10:11 – “‘Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.”
Luke 20:21 – “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God”
John 3:2 – “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him”
John 4:25 – “The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things’”
John 4:42 – “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world”
John 6:69 – “and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God”
John 7:26 – “And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?”
John 9:29 – “we know that God has spoken to Moses”
John 9:31 – “We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.”
John 11:22 – “But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you”
John 11:24 – “Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day’”
John 16:30 – “Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God”
John 17:8 – “they… have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.”
Acts 3:17 – “brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers”
Acts 15:7 – “And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, ‘Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.’”
Acts 26:27 – “King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe”
Rom 2:2 – “We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things”
Rom 3:19 – “Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God”
Rom 5:3 – “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance”
Rom 6:6 – “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.”
Rom 6:9 – “We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him”
Rom 7:14 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin”
Rom 8:22 – “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now”
Rom 8:28 – “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose”
Rom 14:14 – “I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean”
Rom 15:29 – “I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ”
1 Cor 8:1 – “Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that ‘all of us possess knowledge’”
1 Cor 8:4 – “Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ‘an idol has no real existence’ and that ‘there is no God but one’”
1 Cor 15:58 – “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain”
2 Cor 1:7 – “Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort”
2 Cor 4:14 – “knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence”
2 Cor 5:1 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens”
2 Cor 5:6 – “So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord”
Gal 2:16 – “yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.”
Gal 3:7 – “Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.”
Eph 5:5 – “For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.”
Eph 6:8 – “knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free”
Eph 6:9 – “Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him”
Phil 1:19 – “for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance”
Phil 1:25 – “Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,”
Col 3:24 – “knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ”
Col 4:1 – “Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.”
1 Thess 1:4 – “For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you”
1 Thess 3:3 – “For you yourselves know that we are destined for this”
1 Thess 5:2 – “For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night”
2 Thess 2:6 – “And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.”
1 Tim 1:8 – “Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully”
1 Tim 1:9 – “understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers”
2 Tim 1:12 – “which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.”
2 Tim 3:1- “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.”
Titus 3:11 – “knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”
Philemon 21 – “confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.”
Heb 10:34 – “for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.”
James 1:3 – “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.”
James 3:1 – “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”
James 5:20 – “let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 1:18 – “knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold”
2 Peter 1:20 – “knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation.”
2 Peter 3:3 – “knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.”
1 John 2:29 – “If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him”
1 John 3:2 – “but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is”
1 John 3:5 – “You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin”
1 John 3:14 – “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.”
1 John 3:15 – “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”
1 John 4:16 – “we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us”
1 John 5:13 – “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”
1 John 5:15 – “And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
1 John 5:18 – “We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.”
1 John 5:19 – “We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
1 John 5:20 – “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ.”
3 John 12 – “We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.”
Jude 5 – “Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.”
To be able to
Job 32:22 – “For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.”
Job 34:4 – “let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good”
Prov 10:32 – “the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse”
Ecc 4:13 – “better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice”
Ecc 6:8 – “what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?”
Is 7:15, 16 – “when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good”
Is 8:4 – “before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother’”
Amos 3:10 – “‘they do not know how to do right, declares the LORD, ‘those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds’”
Micah 3:1 – “Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?”
Matt 7:11; Luke 11:13 – “if you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children”
Matt 20:22; Mark 10:38 – “You do not know what you are asking”
Matt 27:65 – “make it as secure as you can”
2 Cor 5:11 – “Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others”
Phil 4:12 – “I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.”
Col 4:6 – “Let your speech always be gracious seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person”
1 Thess 4:4 – “that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor”
1 Tim 3:5 – “for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church”
2 Peter 2:9 – “then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment”
To experience or have part in
Gen 41:31 – “plenty will be unknown in the land”
2 Chron 2:12 – “He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding” (NKJV)
Job 5:24 – “You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.”
Job 5:25 – “You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.”
Job 20:20 – “he knew no contentment in his belly”
Job 24:16 – those who do evil “do not know the light”
Ps 79:10 – “let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations!”
Ps 101:4 – “I will know nothing of evil”
Ecc 8:5 – “whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing”
Is 51:7 – “Listen to me, you who know righteousness”
Is 56:11 – “they are shepherds who have no understanding”
Is 59:8 – “the way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace”
Zeph 3:5 – “the unjust knows no shame”
Rom 3:17 – “and the way of peace they have not known”
2 Cor 5:21 – “for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin”
Rev 2:24 – “who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan”
To discover, find out
Ex 2:14 – “Then Moses was afraid, and thought, ‘Surely the thing is known.’”
Neh 13:10 – “I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field”
Ruth 3:4 – “But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies.”
Ruth 3:14 – “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
Ruth 3:18 – “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out”
1 Sam 20:3 – “Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved”
1 Sam 21:2 – “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’”
1 Sam 22:6 – “Now Saul heard that David was discovered”
1 Sam 23:23 – “See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides”
1 Sam 26:4 – “David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.”
1 Sam 28:2 – “David said to Achish, ‘Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.’”
2 Sam 17:19 – “And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.”
2 Chron 32:31 – “God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.”
Esther 2:11 – “And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.”
Esther 4:1 – “Mordecai learned all that had been done”
Esther 4:5 – “Then Esther called for Hathach… and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was”
Jer 36:19 – “Then the officials said to Baruch, ‘Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.’”
Jer 40:15 – “Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, ‘Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it.’”
Mark 6:38 – “And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
Mark 7:24 – Jesus did not want anyone to know when he was at a house in Tyre
Mark 15:45 – “And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.”
Luke 9:11 – “When the crowds learned it, they followed him”
Luke 19:15 – “he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business.”
Luke 23:7 – “And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.”
John 4:1 – “Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard”
John 12:9 – “When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.”
Acts 9:30 – “And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.”
Acts 17:13 – “But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.”
Acts 22:29 – “So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.”
Acts 22:30 – “But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them”
Acts 23:28 – “And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.”
1 Cor 4:19 – “I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power”
2 Cor 2:9 – “For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.”
1 Thess 3:5 – “For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.”
Respect and acknowledge
Acknowledgement of acquaintance
Matt 25:12 – “Truly, I say to you, I do not know you”
Matt 26:72 – “And again he denied it with an oath: ‘I do not know the man’”
Matt 26:74; Mark 14:71 – “Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, ‘I do not know the man’”
Luke 22:34 – “Jesus said, ‘I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me’”
Luke 22:57 – “But he denied it, saying, ‘Woman, I do not know him’”
John 6:42 – “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?”
John 21:12 – “Now none of the disciples dared ask him, ‘Who are you?’ They knew it was the Lord.”
Acts 3:16 – “And his name – by faith in his name – has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all”
2 Cor 12:2 – “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven”
2 Cor 12:3 – “I know that this man was caught up into paradise”
Name of God
1 Kings 8:43; 2 Chron 6:33 – “that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel”
Ps 91:14 – “because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name”
Is 52:6 – “Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am”
Is 64:2 – “to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!”
Jer 10:25 – “the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name”
Jer 16:21 – “and they shall know that my name is the LORD”
Ezek 39:7 – “And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore”
Josh 4:24 – “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
Prov 3:6 – “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Prov 29:7 – “A righteous man knows the rights of the poor”
Prov 31:23 – “Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.”
Is 1:3 – “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know”
Is 59:12 – “for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities”
Is 61:9 – “their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them”
Is 63:16 – “you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us”
Jer 31:34 – “And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.”
Hos 8:2 – “To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.”
Recognition of identity
Jesus
Matt 14:35 – “And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick”
Mark 6:54 – “And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him”
John 1:26 – “John answered them, ‘I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know’”
John 1:31 – “I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water”
John 1:33 – “I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me ’He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit’”
John 5:13 – “Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place”
John 7:26 – “And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?”
John 7:28 – “So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know’”
John 20:14 – “she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus”
John 21:4 – “yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus”
2 Cor 5:16 – “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer”
Samuel
1 Sam 28:14 – “and Saul knew that it was Samuel”
Jesus and the disciples
Mark 6:33 – “Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.”
The shepherd
John 10:4 – “When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.”
Strangers
John 10:5 – “A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Joseph
Acts 7:18 – “until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph”
High priest
Acts 23:5 – “And Paul said, ‘I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest’”
Christ
2 Cor 5:16 – “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer”
Show care and attention
Gen 39:6 – “So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.”
Gen 39:8 – “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.”
Deut 2:7 – “For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”
Deut 33:9 – “who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children.”
Job 9:21 – “I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life”
Job 28:13 – “Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.”
Job 35:15 – “he does not take much note of transgression”
Ps 1:6 – “for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish”
Ps 31:7 – “you have known the distress of my soul”
Ps 69:19 – “you know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you”
Ps 144:3 – “O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?”
Prov 12:10 – “whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast”
Prov 27:23 – “Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds”
Prov 29:7 – “a righteous man knows the rights of the poor”
Is 58:3 – “Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?”
Hos 13:5 – “it was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought”
To be experienced, skillful, trained
Gen 25:27 – “Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field”
Deut 1:13 – “choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men”
Deut 1:15 – “So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men”
1 Sam 16:16 – “Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre”
1 Kings 9:27 – “And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea”
2 Chron 2:7 – “trained also in engraving”
2 Chron 2:8 – “I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon”
2 Chron 2:13 – “Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding”
2 Chron 2:14 – “He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him”
2 Chron 8:18 – “And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea”
Amos 5:16 – “They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation”
Consider well
Judges 18:14 – “Now therefore consider what you will do.”
2 Sam 24:13 – “Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
1 Kings 20:22 – “strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do”
Ecc 1:17 – “And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.”
Ecc 7:25 – “I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.”
Luke 16:4 – “I have decided what to do”
Distinguish between
Deut 1:39 – “your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil”
Deut 18:21 – “How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?”
Is 7:15 – “when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good”
Is 7:16 – “For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good”
Ezek 44:23 – “and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean”
Matt 12:33; Luke 6:44 – a “tree is known by its own fruit”
Rom 7:7 – “if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’”
A family member
Ruth 2:1 – “Naomi had a relative of her husband’s”
Ruth 3:2 – “Is not Boaz our relative”
Job 19:13 – “He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me”
Job 42:11 – “then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him”
A close friend
2 Kings 10:11 – “all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests”
Job 19:14 – “my relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me”
Ps 55:13 – “But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.”
Ps 88:8 – “You have caused my companions to shun me”
Ps 88:18 – “You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.”
Prov 7:4 – “Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and call insight your intimate friend”
Sexual relationship
Gen 4:1, 17, 25; 19:5, 8; 24:16; 38:26; Num 31:17, 18, 35; Judges 11:39; 19:22, 25; 21:11,12; 1 Sam 1:19; 1 Kings 1:4; Matt 1:25; Luke 1:34
Chosen
Gen 18:19 – “for I have chosen him”
Jer 1:5 – “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Hos 8:4 – “they made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not”
Amos 3:2 – “You only have I known of all the families of the earth”
Able to read
Is 29:11, 12 – “When men give it to one who can read, saying, ‘Read this,’ he says, ‘I cannot, for it is sealed.’ And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, ‘I cannot read.’”
John 7:15 – “And the Jews marveled, saying ‘How does this Man know letters, having never studied?’’” (NKJV)
2 Cor 3:2 – “You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.”
To be certain
2 Kings 5:8 – “Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
Acts 2:36 – “Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 12:11 – “When Peter came to himself, he said, ‘Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting’”
1 Cor 7:16 – “For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
To be evident
2 Cor 3:2 – “You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.”
Phil 4:5 – “Let your reasonableness be known to everyone”
Knowing God
Who knows God
Individuals
Moses
Ex 33:13 – “if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.”
Balaam
Num 24:16 – “the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty”
Samuel
1 Sam 3:7 – “Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him”
Ahab
1 Kings 20:13 – “Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
1 Kings 20:28 – “therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
Manasseh
2 Chron 33:13 – “God… heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God”
Paul
2 Tim 1:12 – “which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.”
Jesus
Matt 11:27 – “No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
Luke 10:22 – “no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
God’s people
Ex 16:12 – “Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God’”
Ex 29:46 – “And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.”
1 Sam 17:47 – “that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s”
Job 24:1 – “those who know him never see his days”
Ps 36:10 – “Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!”
Ps 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Ps 48:3 – “Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress”
Ps 76:1 – “In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel”
Ps 100:3 – “Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture”
Prov 3:6 – in all your ways, know God and he will make straight your paths
Is 43:10 – “‘You are my witnesses,’ declares the LORD, ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he’”
Is 49:23 – “With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
Is 60:16 – “You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Jer 9:24 – “but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth.”
Jer 24:7 – “I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart”
Jer 31:34 – “And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Ezek 16:62 – “I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 20:44 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 29:16 – Egypt “shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 29:21 – “On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 34:30 – “And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD”
Ezek 35:11 – “I will make myself known among them, when I judge you”
Ezek 37:6 – “And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 37:13 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.”
Ezek 39:22 – “The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.”
Dan 11:32 – “the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action”
Hos 2:20 – “I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.”
Hos 6:3 – “Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Hos 8:2 – “To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.”
Hos 13:4 – “But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.”
Joel 2:27 – “You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.”
Joel 3:17 – “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.”
John 14:7 – “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 17:3 – “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent”
Gal 4:9 – “But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world?”
Phil 3:10 – “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death:
Heb 8:11 – “And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest”
Heb 10:30 – “For we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people’’
1 John 2:3 – “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.”
1 John 2:4 – “Whoever says ‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him”
1 John 2:13, 14 – “I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.”
1 John 2:13 – “I write to you, children, because you know the Father.”
1 John 4:6 – “We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
1 John 4:7 – “whoever loves has been born of God and knows God”
1 John 5:20 – “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true”
Foreigners
Cyrus
Is 45:3 – “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.”
Jethro
Ex 18:11 – “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”
Naaman
2 Kings 5:15 – “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel”
Pharaoh
Ex 8:10 – “And he said, ‘Tomorrow.’ Moses said, ‘Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.’”
Ex 8:22 – “on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth”
Ex 9:14 – “For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth”
Ex 9:29 – “The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s”
Ex 11:7 – “But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.”
Others nations
Egypt
Ex 7:5 – “The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
Ex 7:17 – “Thus says the LORD, ‘By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.’”
Ex 14:4 – “And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD”
Ex 14:18 – “And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
Is 19:21 – “And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.”
Ezek 29:6 – “Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 29:9 – “and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 30:8 – “Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.”
Ezek 30:19 – “Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 30:25, 26 – “The arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 32:15 – “When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ammon
Ezek 25:7 – “I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Moab
Ezek 25:11 – “and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD”
Philistia
Ezek 25:17 – “I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”
Tyre
Ezek 26:6 – “and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Sidon
Ezek 28:22, 23 – “and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her; for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Edom
Ezek 35:4 – “I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:9 – “I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:12 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:15 – “you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Gog
Ezek 38:16 – “In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”
Ezek 38:23 – “So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Magog
Ezek 39:6 – “I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 36:23 – “And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”
Ezek 36:36 – “then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted what was desolate”
Ezek 37:28 – “Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Ezek 39:7 – “and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel”
All people of the earth
Josh 4:24 – “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever”
1 Sam 17:46 – “that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel”
1 Kings 8:43; 2 Chron 6:33 – “in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you”
1 Kings 8:60 – “that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; and there is no other”
2 Kings 19:19; Is 37:20 – “that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone”
1 Chron 16:8; Ps 105:1 – “make known His deeds among the peoples”
Job 37:7 – God “seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it”
Ps 59:13 – “consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth.”
Ps 67:2 – “that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations”
Ps 145:12 – “to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom”
Is 12:4 – “make his deeds known among the peoples”
Is 45:6 – “that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
Is 49:26 – “I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Ezek 17:24 – “And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
Ezek 21:5 – “and all flesh shall know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 36:23 – “And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”
Ezek 37:28 – “Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Ezek 39:7 – “and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel”
Rom 1:21 – “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Who knows Jesus
God
John 10:15 – “just as the Father knows me”
Israel
Acts 2:36 – “Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Heb 8:11 – “And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.”
His own
John 10:14 – “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me”
Paul
Phil 3:10 – “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death:
People around Jesus
Luke 24:35 – “Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread”
John 7:28 – “So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know’”
John 8:28 – “So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.”
John 14:7 – “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Disciples
John 6:69 – “and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God”
2 Cor 5:16 – “Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.”
1 John 2:3 – “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.”
1 John 2:4 – “Whoever says ‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him”
Demons
Mark 1:24; Luke 4:34 – a man with an unclean spirit cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God”
Mark 1:34 – “he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him”
Luke 4:41 – “And demons also came out of many, crying, ‘You are the Son of God!’ But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ”
Acts 19:15 – “the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize”
Who does not know God
World
Because of wisdom of the world
1 Cor 1:21 – “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.”
Because of His greatness
Job 36:26 – “God is great, and we know Him not; the number of His years is unsearchable”
John 17:25 – “the world does not know You”
1 John 3:1 – “the reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him”
Evil-doers
1 Sam 2:12 – “Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD”
Job 18:21 – “Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.”
Jer 9:3 – “They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.”
Jer 9:6 – “Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.”
Generation
Deut 11:2 – “your children who have not known or seen it”
Judges 2:10 – “there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work He had done for Israel”
Ps 95:10 – “for forty years I loathed that generation and said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways”
Unfaithful
Jer 2:8 – “those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit”
Hos 5:4 – “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.”
Those without love
1 John 4:8 – “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Ps 73:22 – “I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.”
Ps 79:6 – “nations that do not know you”
Prov 30:3 – “I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One”
Is 1:3 – “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know”
Is 45:4, 5 – “For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me”
Jer 4:22 – “For my people are foolish; they know me not”
John 1:10 – “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.”
John 7:28 – “So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know’”
John 8:19 – “Jesus answered, ‘You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also’”
John 8:55 – “But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.”
John 15:21 – “But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me”
John 16:3 – “And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.”
Gal 4:8 – “Formerly, when you did not know God”
1 Thess 4:5 – “not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God”
2 Thess 1:8 – “inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus”
Who does not know Jesus
John 8:19 – “Jesus answered, ‘You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also’”
John 14:9 – “Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
John 16:3 – “And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.”
Who does not know the Holy Spirit
John 14:17 – “even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him.”
Man’s Knowledge
What man can know
God
Know that He is LORD
Ex 7:5 – “The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
Ex 7:17 – “Thus says the LORD, ‘By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.’”
Ex 8:22 – “on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth”
Ex 14:4 – “And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD”
Ex 14:18 – “And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
1 Kings 18:37 – “Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”
1 Kings 20:28 – “therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
2 Chron 33:13 – “God… heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God”
Ps 83:18 – “that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth”
Jer 24:7 – “I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart”
Ezek 17:24 – “And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
Ezek 20:44 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 21:5 – “and all flesh shall know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 23:49 – “And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 25:7 – “I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 25:11 – “and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 25:17 – “I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”
Ezek 26:6 – “and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 28:22, 23 – “and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her; for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Ezek 29:6 – “Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 29:9 – “and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 29:16 – Egypt “shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 30:8 – “Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.”
Ezek 30:19 – “Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 30:25, 26 – “The arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 32:15 – “When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:4 – “I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:9 – “I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:12 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 35:15 – “you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 36:23 – “And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”
Ezek 39:6 – “I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 39:7 – “And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.”
Know the LORD your God
Ex 6:7 – “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”
Ex 16:12 – “Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God’”
Deut 7:9 – “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations”
Deut 9:3 – “Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.”
Deut 29:6 – “You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God”
Ezek 20:5 – “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.”
Ezek 20:20 – “and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.”
Hos 13:4 – “But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.”
Joel 2:27 – “You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.”
Joel 3:17 – “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.”
Know the LORD their God
Ex 29:46 – “And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.”
Ezek 28:26 – “They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”
Ezek 34:30 – “And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD”
Ezek 39:22 – “The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.”
Ezek 39:28 – “Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.”
Know that He is the God of Israel
Ex 11:7 – “But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.”
1 Sam 17:46 – through the victory over Goliath and the Philistine army, “all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel”
1 Kings 18:36 – “Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.”
2 Kings 5:15 – “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel”
Ps 59:13 – “consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth.”
Is 45:3 – “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.”
Is 49:26 – “I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Ezek 20:5 – “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.”
Ezek 37:28 – “Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Ezek 39:7 – “And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.”
Joel 2:27 – “You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.”
Know that He is the only God
Ex 8:10 – “Moses said, ‘Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.’”
Ex 9:14 – “For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.”
1 Kings 8:60 – “that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; and there is no other”
2 Kings 19:19; Is 37:20 – “that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone”
Ps 135:5 – “For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.”
Is 45:6 – God called Cyrus so that “people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
About God’s characteristics
God’s deeds, works
Josh 24:31 – “the elders… had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel”
1 Chron 16:8; Ps 105:1 – “make known His deeds among the peoples”
1 Chron 17:19 – “For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.”
Neh 6:16 – “they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God”
Job 37:7 – God “seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom He made may know it”
Ps 103:7 – “He made known his ways to Moses; his acts to the people of Israel”
Ps 109:27 – “Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!”
Ps 139:14 – “wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well”
Ps 145:12 – “to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom”
Is 12:4 – “make his deeds known among the peoples”
Micah 6:5 – through remembering what happened with Balak and Balaam, “you may know the righteous acts of the LORD”
Hab 3:2 – “O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known”
God’s name
1 Kings 8:43; 2 Chron 6:33 – “that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel”
Ps 9:10 – “And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.”
Ps 91:14 – “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.”
Is 52:6 – “Therefore my people shall know my name”
Is 64:2 – “to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!”
Jer 16:21 – “and they shall know that my name is the LORD”
Ezek 39:7 – “my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel”
God’s might
Josh 4:24 – “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
1 Sam 17:47 – “that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s”
Ps 77:14 – “You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples”
Ps 106:8 – “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.”
Is 33:13 – “Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
Jer 16:21 – “I will make them know my power and my might”
God’s way
Ex 33:13 – “if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.”
Ps 25:4 – “Make me to know your ways, O LORD”
Ps 67:2 – “that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations”
Ps 95:10 – “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
Ps 103:7 – “He made known his ways to Moses; his acts to the people of Israel”
Is 58:2 – “Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways”
God’s statutes, laws, and testimonies
Ex 18:16 – “I make them know the statutes of God and his laws”
Ps 78:5 – “He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children”
Ps 119:79 – “that they may know God’s testimonies”
Ps 119:125 – “that I may know Your testimonies”
Ps 119:152 – “Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.”
God’s judgment
Num 14:34 – “you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.”
Ps 79:10 – “let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!”
Ezek 20:11 – “I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules”
Ezek 25:14 – “And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.”
God’s will
Luke 12:48 – “But the one who did not know [his master’s will], and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating.”
Acts 22:14 – “The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will”
Rom 2:18 – “and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law”
Rom 11:34 – “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
God’s love
Eph 3:19 – “and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge”
1 John 3:16 – “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
1 John 4:16 – “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”
God’s salvation
Ps 67:2 – “Your saving power among all nations”
Ps 98:2 – “The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.”
God’s holy Sabbath
Neh 9:14 – “You made known to them your holy Sabbath”
God’s covenant
Ps 25:14 – “The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.”
Passed down to the next generation
Lev 23:43 – “that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of Egypt”
Deut 4:9 – “make them known to your children and your children’s children”
Josh 4:22 – “then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground”
Ps 78:5 – “He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children”
Ps 78:6 – “that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children”
Ps 89:1 – “I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.”
Is 38:19 – “the father makes known to the children your faithfulness”
Ex 9:29 – “Moses said to him, ‘As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.’”
2 Chron 12:8 – “that they may know My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries”
Job 19:25 – “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.”
Job 23:3 – “Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!”
Ps 119:75 – “I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.”
Jer 44:28 – “all the remnant of Judah… shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs”
Ezek 21:5 – “and all flesh shall know that I am the LORD”
Hos 5:9 – “among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure”
Jonah 4:2 – “I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster”
Hab 2:14 – “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”
Matt 9:6; Mark 2:10 – “that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
Matt 22:16 – “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully”
Mark 12:14 – “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion”
John 15:15 – “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you”
John 7:17 – “he will know whether the teaching is from God”
John 14:31 – “that the world may know that I love the Father”
1 Cor 2:12 – “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God”
2 Cor 8:9 – “for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ”
1 John 2:5 – “but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him”
1 John 3:24 – “And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.”
1 John 4:13 – “By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
Rev 2:23 – “And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart”
Rev 3:9 – “behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.”
Jesus
Luke 24:35 – “Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread”
John 6:69 – “and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God”
John 8:28 – “So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.”
John 10:14 – “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me”
John 14:7 – “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 17:3 – “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
1 Cor 2:2 – “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified”
2 Cor 5:16 – “Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.”
About Jesus
That Jesus is from God
John 14:20 – “In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”
John 17:7 – “Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you”
John 17:8 – “they… have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.”
John 17:23 – “that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them”
John 17:25 – “these know that You have sent Me”
Acts 2:36 – “Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Jesus’ teachings
John 13:7 – “Jesus answered him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand’”
John 13:17 – “if you know these things, blessed are you if you do them”
John 18:21 – “Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said”
John 7:28 – “So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know’”
John 10:38 – “believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
John 14:4 – “you know the way to where I am going”
Holy Spirit
John 14:17 – “even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”
1 John 4:2 – “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God”
1 John 4:6 – “We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
A person’s character, habits
Gen 20:6 – “I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart”
Gen 33:13 – “my lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me”
Ex 32:22 – “You know the people, that they are set on evil.”
Ex 33:13 – “please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.”
Deut 9:2 – “a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
Deut 31:21 – “I know what they are inclined to do even today”
Ruth 3:11 – “all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman”
1 Sam 10:11 – “all who knew him previously”
2 Sam 14:1 – “Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom”
2 Sam 3:25 – “You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”
2 Sam 17:8 – “Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field.”
2 Sam 17:10 – “all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.”
2 Kings 4:1 – “you know that your servant feared the LORD”
2 Kings 9:11 – “And he said to them, ‘You know the fellow and his talk.’”
Job 21:27 – “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.”
Is 48:4 – “I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass”
Jer 12:3 – “but you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you”
Matt 25:24 – “He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed”
Matt 27:18 – “he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up”
Mark 6:20 – “Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man”
Mark 12:15 – “knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, ‘Why put me to the test?’”
Luke 19:22 – “you knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?”
John 8:37 – “I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.”
John 9:20 – “we know that this is our son and that he was born blind”
John 9:25 – “whether he is a sinner I do not know”
Acts 3:16 – “And his name – by faith in his name – has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all”
Acts 20:18 – “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia”
Acts 26:4 – “My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews”
1 Thess 1:5 – “You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake”
1 Thess 2:5 – “For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed – God is witness”
1 Thess 2:11 – “For you know how, like a father with his children,”
Philemon 21 – “confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.”
Self
Mark 5:33 – “the woman, knowing what had happened to her”
John 9:25 – “one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see”
John 19:35 – “He who saw it has borne witness – his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth – that you also may believe”
Rom 7:18 – “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out”
1 Cor 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him?”
2 Tim 1:12 – “which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.”
Revelation 3:17 – “For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked”
Who is sent by the Lord
Ex 33:12 – “Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me.’”
Num 16:28-30 – “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”
1 Sam 3:19, 20 – “And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.”
1 Kings 17:23, 24 – “And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.” And the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.’”
1 Kings 18:36 – “Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.”
Jer 28:9 – “when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet”
Ezek 33:33 – “When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
Zech 2:9 – “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.”
Zech 2:11 – “And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.”
Zech 6:15 – “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.”
John 17:25 – “these know that You have sent Me”
The times
1 Chron 12:32 – “Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do”
Esther 1:13 – “Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times”
Job 39:1 – “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?”
Ps 104:19 – “the sun knows its time for setting”
Ecc 8:5 – “Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.”
Ecc 9:12 – “For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.”
Jer 8:7 – “even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming”
Luke 12:56 – “you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?”
John 13:1 – “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour has come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”
Rom 13:11 – “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.”
Sin
Lev 4:14 – “when the sin which they have committed becomes known”
Lev 4:23, 28 – “the sin which he has committed is made known to him”
2 Sam 19:20 – “For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
1 Kings 2:44 – “The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the LORD will bring back your harm on your own head.”
Job 13:23 – “Make me know my transgression and my sin”
Ps 51:3 – “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.”
Is 59:12 – “we know our iniquities”
Jer 3:13; 14:20 – “we acknowledge our wickedness”
Wisdom
Ps 51:6 – “you teach me wisdom in the secret heart”
Prov 1:2 – “To know wisdom and instruction”
Ecc 1:17 – “And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly”
Ecc 7:25 – “I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.”
Ecc 8:16 – “When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth”
Way
Ex 18:20 – “make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do”
Josh 3:4 – “in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”
Ps 16:11 – “You make known to me the path of life”
Ps 143:8 – “make me know the way I should go”
Acts 24:22 – “rather accurate knowledge of the Way”
2 Peter 2:21 – “For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.”
Humanity, days on earth
Ps 9:20 – “let the nations know that they are but men!”
Ps 39:4 – “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!”
Ps 90:12 – “teach us to number our days”
Good and evil
Gen 3:5 – “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Gen 3:22 – “Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil.”
Is 7:15 – child will come to reject evil and choose good
Ezek 44:23 – “They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.”
Affliction and sorrow
1 Kings 8:38 – “each knowing the affliction of his own heart”
2 Chron 6:29 – “each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow”
Prov 14:10 – “The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.”
Truth
1 Tim 4:3 – “who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”
1 John 2:21 – “I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it”
1 John 3:19 – “By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him”
2 John 1:1 – “all who know the truth”
Mysteries
Jer 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known”
Mt 13:11 – And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Lk 8:10 – he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
That a testimony is true
John 19:35 – “He who saw it has borne witness – his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth – that you also may believe”
John 21:24 – “This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true”
What he ought to do
2 Thess 3:7 – “for you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us”
James 4:17 – “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin”
Commandments
Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20 – “you know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother’”
Rom 1:32 – “Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
The things that will be
Gen 41:39 – “Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has shown you all this’”
1 Cor 13:12 – “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”
Scriptures
2 Tim 3:15 – “from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus”
General understanding
Job 34:33 – “declare what you know”
1 John 2:20 – “But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge”
Things pertaining to life and godliness
2 Peter 1:12 – “Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.”
True worship
John 4:22 – “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews”
Who is of the Lord
Num 16:5 – the LORD will make known who is His and who is holy
The time and way
Ecc 8:5 – “the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way”
Understanding
Is 29:24 – “And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding”
Others’ plans, deeds
Jer 11:18 – “The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds”
How man can know
God makes known
Through events in Egypt
Ex 10:2 – “and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”
Deut 4:35 – “To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.”
Deut 4:39 – “know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”
Ezek 20:5 – “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.”
Through bringing them out of Egypt
Ex 6:7 – “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”
Ex 16:6 – “So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt”
Lev 23:43 – “that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of Egypt”
Ezek 20:38 – “I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Through deliverance
Ezek 28:24 – “And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD”
Ezek 28:26 – “They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”
Ezek 34:27 – “And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.”
Through bringing into land of Israel
Ezek 20:42 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that I swore to give to your fathers.”
Ezek 37:13 – “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.”
Through signs
Ex 31:13 – “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.’”
Num 16:5 – “In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.”
1 Kings 18:37 – “Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”
Ezek 20:12 – “Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”
Ezek 20:20 – “and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.”
Ezek 24:24 – “Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 24:27 – “On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
Through leaving them to suffer the consequences of their own actions
Ezek 20:26 – “and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD”
Ezek 22:16 – “And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 23:49 – “And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Through God’s judgment, pouring out His fury
Ps 9:16 – “The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands”
God’s fury on the people and false prophets will cause them to know He is the LORD (Ezek 5:13; 6:7,10,13,14; 7:4,9,27; 11:10,12; 12:15,16,20; 13:9,14,21,23; 14:8; 15:7; 17:21; 22:22)
Through desolation
Ezek 25:5 – “I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 33:29 – “Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.”
Through restoration
Ezek 36:11 – “And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 36:38 – “Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 39:28 – “Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.”
God makes it known directly
Regarding Himself
Num 12:6 – “I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream”
1 Kings 20:28 – “therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
Ps 9:16 – “The LORD has made Himself known”
Ps 48:3 – “within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress”
Is 19:21 – “the LORD will make Himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD”
Is 49:26 – “then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob”
Ezek 20:5 – “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God”
Ezek 36:36 – “then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted what was desolate”
Ezek 37:28 – “Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Ezek 38:16 – “In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.”
Ezek 38:23 – “So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Acts 2:30 – “Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne”
2 Peter 1:14 – “since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me”
Regarding God’s way
Ex 33:13 – “if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.”
Ps 25:4 – “Make me to know your ways, O LORD”
Ps 67:2 – “that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations”
Ps 103:7 – “He made known his ways to Moses; his acts to the people of Israel”
Is 40:14 – “Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?”
Regarding God’s name
2 Chron 6:33 – “that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel”
Is 52:6 – “Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am”
Is 64:2 -”as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!”
Jer 16:21 – “and they shall know that my name is the LORD”
Ezek 39:7 – “my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel… and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel”
Regarding God’s power
Josh 4:24 – “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
Ps 77:14 – “You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.”
Ps 106:8 – “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.”
Jer 16:21 – “I will make them know my power and my might”
Regarding God’s work
Job 37:7 – God “seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom He made may know it”
Ps 109:27 – “Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!”
Hab 3:2 – “O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known”
Regarding God’s salvation
Ps 67:2 – “that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations”
Ps 98:2 – “the LORD has made known His salvation”
Regarding mysteries
Is 48:6 – “you have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known”
Jer 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known”
Col 1:27 – “To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Gen 41:39 – “Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are’”
Num 16:5 – “and he said to Korah and all his company, ‘In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him’”
Deut 8:3 – “that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone”
Neh 9:14 – “you made known to them your holy Sabbath”
1 Sam 16:3 – “I will show you what you shall do”
2 Sam 7:21 – “Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.”
1 Chron 17:19 – God made known “all these great things”
Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”
Job 13:23 – “How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.”
Ps 9:20 – “Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men!”
Ps 16:11 – “You make known to me the path of life”
Ps 25:14 – “The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.”
Ps 39:4 – “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!”
Ps 51:6 – “you teach me wisdom in the secret heart”
Ps 79:10 – “let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!”
Ps 90:12 – “teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom”
Ps 119:125 – “give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies!”
Ps 143:8 – “make me know the way I should go”
Is 5:5 – “I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard”
Jer 11:18 – “The LORD made it known to me and I knew”
Ezek 20:11 – “I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules”
Ezek 21:5 – “And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.”
Hos 5:9 – “among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure”
God makes it known through an action, occurrence
Ex 6:7 – “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”
Ex 7:17 – “Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.”
Ex 9:14 – “For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.”
Ex 11:7 – “But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.”
Lev 23:42, 43 – “All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt”
Num 14:34 – “According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.”
Num 16:5 – “In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.”
Num 16:28-30 – “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”
Deut 29:6 – “You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.”
Josh 3:7 – “The LORD said to Joshua, ‘Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.’”
Josh 3:10ff – “And Joshua said, ‘Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.’”
Josh 4:23-24 – “For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over… so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
Judges 6:37 – “behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”
1 Sam 3:19-20 – “And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.”
1 Sam 6:3 – “Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”
1 Sam 6:9 – “If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”
1 Sam 12:17 – “I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great… in asking for yourselves a king.”
2 Sam 5:11-12; 1 Chron 14:1-2 – “And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him. And David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.”
1 Kings 8:43; 2 Chron 6:33 – “hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.”
1 Kings 18:36, 37 – “Elijah the prophet came near and said, ‘O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.’”
2 Chron 12:8 – “Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”
2 Chron 33:13 – “God… heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God”
Job 21:19 – “You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.”
Job 37:7 – God “seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom He made may know it”
Ps 41:11 – “By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.”
Ps 106:8 – “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.”
Is 9:8, 9 – “The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel; and all the people will know”
Is 45:3 – “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.”
Is 45:6 – “that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
Is 52:6 – “Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am”
Is 64:2 – “as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!”
Jer 44:28-29 – “and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm”
Jer 28:9 – “when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet”
Ezek 14:23 – “They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 20:26 – “I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.”
Ezek 25:14 – “And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezek 36:36 – “then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted what was desolate”
Ezek 38:14 – “On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?”
Ezek 39:6-7 – “I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD. And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.”
Ezek 39:22 – “The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.”
Ezek 39:23 – “And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity”
Hos 9:7 – “The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it.”
Micah 6:5 – “O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”
Mal 2:4 – “So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.”
Matt 9:6; Luke 5:24 – “that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
John 10:38 – “believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
John 14:31 – “but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.”
Rev 2:23 – “and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart”
Rev 3:9 – “behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.”
God makes it known through people
Ex 9:29 – “Moses said to him, ‘As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.’”
1 Kings 17:23, 24 – “And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.” And the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.’”
Ps 78:5 – “He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children”
Ezek 16:2 – “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations”
Ezek 20:4 – “Let them know the abominations of their fathers”
Ezek 22:2 – “declare to her all her abominations”
Ezek 43:11 – “make known to them the design of the temple… and make known to them as well all its statutes”
Ezek 29:21 – “On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Zech 11:11 – “And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders… knew that it was the word of the LORD”
By an action, occurrence
Gen 8:11 – “in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth”
Gen 24:14 – “Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”
Gen 24:21 – “The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.”
Gen 42:33 – “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me”
Gen 42:34 – “Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men”
Ex 8:10 – “And he said, ‘Tomorrow.’ Moses said, ‘Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.’”
Ex 33:16 – “For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”
Judges 8:16 – “And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson”
1 Sam 20:33 – “Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death”
2 Sam 14:22 – “And Joab said, ‘Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.’”
2 Sam 19:6 – “For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.”
1 Kings 20:28 – “therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD”
Job 19:29 – “be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
Ezek 33:33 – “When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
Jonah 1:7 – “And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.”
Matt 24:32; Mark 13:28 – “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.”
Matt 24:33; Mark 13:29 – “So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.”
Luke 1:18 – “And Zechariah said to the angel, ‘How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.’”
Luke 21:20 – “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.”
Luke 21:30 – “As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.”
Luke 21:31 – “So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near”
John 19:4 – “Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
1 John 2:18 – “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.”
By speech, instruction of others
Ex 18:16 – “I make them know the statutes of God and his laws”
Ex 18:20 – “you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do”
Ex 33:12 – “you have not let me know whom you will send with me”
Deut 4:9 – “make them known to your children and your children’s children”
Deut 18:21 – “How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?”
Josh 4:22 – “then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground”
Ruth 4:4 – “If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.”
1 Sam 6:2 – “Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”
1 Kings 1:27 – “you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him”
1 Chron 16:8; Ps 105:1 – “make known His deeds among the peoples”
2 Chron 23:13 – singers with their musical instruments teaching the people to praise
Neh 8:12 – “words that were declared to them”
Job 26:3 – “How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!”
Job 32:6 – And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
Job 32:17 – I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion.
Job 38:3; 40:7; 42:4 – “Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me”
Ps 32:5 – “I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and you forgave the iniquity of my sin”
Ps 78:5 – “He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children”
Ps 78:6 – “that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children”
Ps 89:1 – “I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.”
Ps 145:12 – “to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom”
Prov 1:23 – If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
Prov 9:9 – “teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning”
Is 5:5 – “And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard”
Is 12:4 – “make his deeds known among the peoples”
Is 38:19 – “the father makes known to the children your faithfulness”
Is 41:22, 23 – “Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods”
Is 47:13 – “those who… at the new moons make known what shall come upon you”
Jer 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”
Jer 38:24 – “Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, ‘Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.’”
Ezek 16:2 – “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations”
Ezek 20:4 – “Let them know the abominations of their fathers”
Ezek 22:2 – “declare to her all her abominations”
Ezek 22:26 – “neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean”
Ezek 43:11 – “make known to them the design of the temple… and make known to them as well all its statutes”
Ezek 44:23 – “They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean”
Matt 9:30; Mark 5:43 – “see that no one knows about it”
John 15:15 – “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you”
Eph 6:21 – “So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything”
1 Thess 3:4 – “For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.”
1 Thess 4:2 – “For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus”
By hearing
Ex 3:7 – “Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings”
Neh 4:15 – the enemies heard that their plan was known to us
Job 5:27 – hearing and knowing is for your good
Job 23:5 – I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me.
Ps 78:3 – “things that we have heard and known”
Prov 4:1 – “hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight”
Is 48:6 – “you have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known”
Jer 6:18 – “hear, O nations, and know”
Matt 21:45 – “When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.”
Mark 15:45 – “And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.”
John 7:51 – “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
Jn 8:43 – Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
John 8:52 – “The Jews said to him, ‘Now we know that you have a demon!’”
Acts 17:19 – “And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?”
Acts 21:34 – “Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.”
1 Cor 14:7 – “If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?”
1 Cor 14:9 – “So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.”
Eph 6:22; Col 4:8 – “I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.”
Phil 2:19 – “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.”
1 John 4:2 – “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God”
By personal experience
Ex 23:9 – “you know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt”
Deut 11:2 – “I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it”
Deut 29:16 – “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.”
Ex 23:9 – “you know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt”
Judges 3:1, 2 – “had not experienced all the wars”; “know war”
Ps 89:15 – “Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout”
Prov 14:10 – “the heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy”
Is 47:8 – “I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”
John 19:35 – “He who saw it has borne witness – his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth – that you also may believe”
By age
Deut 1:39 – “your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil”
Job 32:7 – “let days speak, and many years teach wisdom”
Is 7:16 – “For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good”
Is 8:4 – “ before the boy knows how to cry, ‘My father’ or ‘My mother’”
By applying heart, turning one’s heart
Ecc 1:17 – “And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly.”
Ecc 7:25 – “I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.”
Ecc 8:16 – “When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth”
By wisdom
2 Sam 14:20 – In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”
Hos 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
By seeking
Is 58:2 – “Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways”
Jer 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known”
By reading
1 Tim 3:15 – “I am writing these things to you so that, if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God”
1 John 5:13 – “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”
By casting lots
Jonah 1:7 – “And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.”
By keeping God’s word
John 8:55 – “I do know him and I keep his word.”
By believing the works
John 10:38 – “believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
What man should know
Commanded to know
Command to know God
1 Chron 28:9 – “know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind”
Ps 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Ps 100:3 – “Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
Prov 3:6 – “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Jer 31:34, Heb 8:11 – “And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.”
Gen 15:13 – “Then the LORD said to Abram, ‘Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.’”
Gen 20:7 – “But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
Num 32:23 – “Be sure your sin will find you out”
Deut 9:3 – “Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.”
Deut 9:6 – “Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.”
Josh 22:22 – “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know!”
Josh 23:13 – “know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you”
Judges 18:14 – “Now therefore consider what you will do.”
1 Sam 6:2 – “ Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”
1 Sam 12:17 – “And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD.”
1 Sam 14:38 – “And Saul said, ‘Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.’”
1 Sam 20:7 – “If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.”
1 Sam 23:22, 23 – “Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning. See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information.”
1 Sam 24:11 – “you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands”
1 Sam 25:17 – “Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house”
1 Sam 28:1 – “And Achish said to David, ‘Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.’”
2 Sam 24:13 – “Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
1 Kings 20:7 – “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble”
1 Kings 20:22 – “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.”
1 Kings 2:37, 42 – “on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die.
2 Kings 5:6 – “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
2 Kings 5:7 – “Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
2 Kings 10:10 – “Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”
2 Chron 13:5 – “Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?”
Job 5:27 – “Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”
Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”
Job 11:6 – “Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.”
Job 13:23 – “How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.”
Job 19:6 – “know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.”
Job 37:19 – Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
Job 37:19 – Elihu says to “teach us” what to say to Job
Ps 4:3 – “But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself”
Ps 25:4 – “Make me to know your ways, O LORD”
Ps 39:4 – “O LORD, make me to know my end and measure of days; let me know how fleeting I am!”
Ps 90:12 – “So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom”
Ps 139:23 – “search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts”
Prov 24:14 – “Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.”
Ecc 11:9 – “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.”
Is 33:13 – “Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
Jer 2:19 – “Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God”
Jer 2:23 – “know what you have done”
Jer 3:13 – “Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God”
Jer 15:15 – “know that for your sake I bear reproach”
Jer 26:15 – “Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Jer 42:19 – “Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day”
Jer 42: 22 – “Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
Ezek 36:32 – “It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you.”
Ezek 43:11 – “make known to them the design of the temple… and make known to them as well all its statutes”
Hos 14:9 – “whoever is discerning, let him know them”
Matt 24:43 – “But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.”
Luke 10:11 – “‘Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.”
Luke 12:39 – “But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.”
Luke 21:20 – “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.”
Luke 21:31 – “So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.”
John 15:18 – “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
Acts 2:36 – “Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
1 Cor 11:3 – “But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God”
Col 2:1 – “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face”
Eph 1:18 – “having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints”
Eph 5:5 – “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolator), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God”
James 1:19 – “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger”
Gal 3:7 – “Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.”
2 Tim 3:1- “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.”
Heb 13:23 – “You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.”
James 5:20 – “let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”
1 John 4:2 – “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God”
What man does not know
About God
The work of God
Deut 11:2 – “your children who have not known or seen it” (ref Deut 11:7)
Judges 2:10 – “there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work He had done for Israel”
Job 37:5 – God “does great things that we cannot comprehend”
Ecc 8:17 – “then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.”
Ecc 11:5 – “so you do not know the work of God who makes everything”
The mind of the Lord
Micah 4:12 – “But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan”
Luke 12:48 – “But the one who did not know [his master’s will], and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating.”
1 Cor 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”
1 Cor 2:16 – “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
The providence of God
Hos 2:8 – Israel “did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal”
Hos 11:3 – “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.”
The way of God
Ps 95:10; Heb 3:10 – “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
Job 21:14 – “They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.’”
Jer 5:4 – “Then I said, ‘These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.’”
Ex 6:3 – “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.”
Judges 16:20 – “he did not know that the LORD had left him”
2 Kings 17:26 – “the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land”
Job 11:8 – “It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?”
Ps 71:15 – “My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.”
Ps 90:11- “Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?”
Ps 147:20 – “He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!”
Jer 5:4 – “they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God”
Jer 8:7 – “my people know not the rules of the LORD”
Hos 7:9 – “Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not”
Matt 22:29 – “Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God’”
Mark 12:24 – “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?”
John 3:10 – “Jesus answered him, ‘Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?’”
1 Cor 2:8 – “None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”
1 Cor 2:14 – “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned”
About Jesus
John 4:32 – “But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about’”
John 7:27 – “when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from”
John 9:29 – “but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from”
John 9:30 – “you do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes”
John 16:18 – “So they were saying, ‘What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about’”
John 20:9 – “for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead”
General knowledge
Job 8:9 – “For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow”
Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”
Job 42:3 – “‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
Ps 14:4 – “Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?”
Ps 53:4 – “Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?”
Ps 82:5 – “They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness”
Ps 73:22 – “I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you”
Ps 92:6 – “the stupid man cannot know”
Prov 9:13 – “Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing”
Is 45:20 – “they have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols”
Matt 24:39 – “and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man”
Luke 9:45 – “but they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it”
John 11:49 – “But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, ‘You know nothing at all’”
1 Cor 8:2 – “If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.”
Jude 10 – “But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand”
Oneself
One’s evil actions
Rom 7:15 – “for i do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate”
Ecc 5:1 – “fools… do not know that they are doing evil”
Jer 50:24 – “I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD”
Jonah 4:11 – “persons who do not know their right hand from their left”
Luke 23:34 – “And Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’”
Own speech
Matt 20:22; Mark 10:38 – “You do not know what you are asking”
Luke 9:33 – “not knowing what he said”
Own heart
Jer 17:9 – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
Time, hour
Gen 27:2 – “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.”
Ecc 9:12 – “for man does not know his time”
Matt 24:50; Luke 12:46 – “the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know”
Luke 19:44 – “because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Acts 1:7 – “it is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority”
Rev 3:3 – “If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.”
Day or hour of Jesus’ coming
Matt 24:36; Mark 13:32 – “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only”
Matt 24:42 – “Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming”
Matt 25:13 – “Watch therefore, for you do know neither the day or hour”
Mark 13:33 – “Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come
Mark 13:35 – “Therefore stay awake – for you do not know when the master of the house will come”
What is to be
Ps 39:6 – “man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!”
Prov 27:1 – “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”
Ecc 9:1 – “Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.”
Ecc 10:14 – “no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?”
Ecc 11:2 – “you know not what disaster may happen on earth”
Ecc 11:6 – “you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good”
Acts 20:22 – “and now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there”
James 4:14 – “yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”
Things in the natural world
Prov 30:18 – Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:
Prov 30:19 – the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
Ecc 11:5 – “As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”
Mark 4:27 – “the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how”
God’s messengers
Num 22:34 – “Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, ‘I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me.’”
Judges 13:16 – “For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.”
Name
Rev 2:17 – “I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it”
Rev 19:12 – “he has a name written that no one knows but himself”
What to do
2 Chron 20:12 – “we do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you”
Rom 8:26 – “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words”
True worship
John 4:22 – “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews”
Parables
Mark 4:13 – “do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?”
Wisdom
Job 28:13 – “Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living”
Way of peace
Is 59:8 – “The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.”
What man presumes to know
1 Sam 17:28 – “I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”
Job 42:3 – “‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
Jer 5:5 – “‘I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.’ But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.”
John 9:24 – “they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ‘Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner’”
Titus 1:16 – “they profess to know God, but they deny him by their works”
What man doubts he knows
John 14:5 – “Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’”
What Jesus did not want to be known
Matt 9:30 – “And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, ‘See that no one knows about it.’”
Mark 5:43 – “And he strictly charged them that no one should know this”
Mark 7:24 – “And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.”
Mark 9:30 – “They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know”
God’s Knowledge
Whom God knows
Abraham
Gen 18:19 – “for I have known him” (NKJV)
Moses
Ex 33:12 – “you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight’”
Ex 33:17 – “And the LORD said to Moses, ‘This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name’”
Deut 34:10 – “there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face”
David
2 Sam 7:20, 1 Chron 17:18 – “What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD!”
Jeremiah
Jer 1:5 – “before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations”
Jer 12:3 – “but you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you”
Ephraim
Hos 5:3 – “I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me”
Jesus
Matt 11:27 – “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father”
Luke 10:22 – “no one knows who the Son is except the Father… and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
John 10:15 – “just as the Father knows me”
His people
Hos 13:5 – “it was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought”
Amos 3:2 – “You only have I known of all the families of the earth”
Nahum 1:7 – “The LORD is good, a stronghold in day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in Him”
1 Cor 8:3 – “but if anyone loves God, he is known by God”
Gal 4:9 – “now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God”
2 Tim 2:19 – “the Lord knows those who are His”
The haughty
Ps 138:6 – “the haughty [God] knows from afar”
Whom God does not know
Hos 8:4 – “[Israel] made kings but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not”
Matt 7:23 – “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness”
Matt 25:12 – “Truly, I say to you, I do not know you”
Luke 13:25 – “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’”
Luke 13:27 – “But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’”
What God knows
Man
Man’s thoughts, heart
Gen 20:6 – “I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart”
Deut 8:2 – “testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.”
Deut 31:21 – “I know what they are inclined to do even today”
2 Sam 7:20; 1 Chron 17:18 – “What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD!”
1 Kings 8:39; 2 Chron 6:30 – “render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind”
2 Chron 32:31 – “God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart”
Ps 44:21 – “he knows the secrets of the heart”
Ps 94:11 – “the LORD – knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath”
Ps 139:1 – you have searched me and known me
Ps 139:4 – “even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether”
Ps 139:23 – “search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts”
Jer 12:3 – “but you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you”
Jer 18:23 – “yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me”
Ezek 11:5 – “For I know the things that come into your mind”
Luke 16:15 – “God knows your hearts”
1 Cor 3:20 – “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile”
Man’s works
Rev 2:2 – “I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.”
Rev 2:19 – “I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.”
Rev 3:1 – “I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.”
Rev 3:8 – “I know your works”
Rev 3:15 – “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!”
Man’s iniquities
Job 11:11 – “For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?”
Ps 69:5 – “O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you”
Jer 15:15 – LORD knows, remembers, visits, takes vengeance on persecutors
Jer 48:30 – I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.
Hos 5:3 – “I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me”
Amos 5:12 – “I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins – you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate”
Man’s ways, goings
Deut 2:7 – “He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing”
Job 23:10 – “but he knows the way that I take”
Ps 1:6 – “for the LORD knows the way of the righteous”
Ps 139:2 – “you know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar”
Ps 139:3 – You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Ps 142:3 – “when my spirit faints within me, you know my way!”
Ps 143:8 – “make me know the way I should go”
Man’s suffering
Ex 2:25 – “God saw the people of Israel – and God knew”
Ex 3:7 – “I know their sufferings”
Ps 31:7 – “you have known the distress of my soul”
Ps 69:19 – “you know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you”
Jer 15:15 – O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
Man’s righteous deeds
Gen 20:6 – “I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart”
Job 31:6 – “Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!”
Ps 40:9 – “I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.”
Jer 17:16 – “I have not run away from being your shepherd, nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips; it was before your face”
2 Cor 11:31 – “God… knows that I am not lying”
Man’s needs
Matt 6:8 – “for your Father knows what you need before you ask him”
Matt 6:32; Luke 12:30 – “For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all”
Man’s days
Ps 37:18 – “the LORD knows the days of the blameless”
Man’s humanity
Ps 103:14 – “he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust”
Gen 18:21 – “I will go down to see whatever they have done altogether according to the outcry has come to me. And if not, I will know”
Prov 24:12 – “Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to His work?”
Is 37:28 – “I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me”
Is 48:4 – “I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass”
Is 48:8 – “I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth”
Rev 2:9 – “I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan”
Rev 2:13 – “I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is”
General knowledge
Josh 22:22 – “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows”
Jer 15:15 – “O LORD, you know”
2 Cor 11:11 – “God knows”
Events of the future
Ex 3:19 – “but I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand”
Ezek 37:3 – “And he said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ And I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, you know.’”
Name
Rev 2:17 – “I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it”
Rev 19:12 – “he has a name written that no one knows but himself”
Everything
1 John 3:20 – “He knows everything”
Wisdom
Job 28:23 – “God understands the way to [wisdom], and he knows its place”
His plans for man
Jer 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope”
His creation
Ps 50:11 – “I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.”
The mind of the spirit
Rom 8:27 – “he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit”
Day of the Lord
Zech 14:7 – “there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD”
Serpent’s claim of what God knows
Gen 3:5 – “For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods,knowing good and evil.”
God’s knowledge questioned by man
Job 22:13 – “And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?’”
Ps 73:11 – “And they say, ‘How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?’”
Is 29:15 – “Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Whom Jesus knows
People
All people
John 2:24 – “He knew all people”
Nathanael
John 1:48 – “Nathanael said to him, ‘How do you know me?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you’”
His own
John 10:14 – “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me”
John 10:27 – “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”
John 13:18 – “I know whom I have chosen”
God
Luke 10:22 – “no one knows who… the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”
John 7:29 – “I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me”
John 8:55 – “But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.”
John 10:15 – “I know the Father”
John 17:25 – “O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you”
Whom Jesus does not know
Matt 7:23 – “And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’”
What Jesus knows
Man
What is within man
Matt 12:15 – “Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there”
Matt 22:18 – “Jesus, aware of their malice, said”
Mark 12:15 – “knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, ‘Why put me to the test?’”
Luke 9:47 – “Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side”
John 2:25 – “He knew what was in man”
John 5:42 – “I know that you do not have the love of God within you”
John 6:61 – “But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, ‘Do you take offense at this?’”
John 6:64 – “Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him”
John 16:19 – “Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him”
John 21:15 – “When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’’”
John 21:16 – “He said to him a second time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’”
John 21:17 – “Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and he said to him, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.’”
Thoughts of man
Matt 12:25; Luke 11:17 – “knowing their thoughts, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.’”
Luke 6:8 – “But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Come and stand here.’”
Discussions between man
Matt 16:8 – “Jesus, aware of this, said”
Matt 26:10 – “Jesus, aware of this, said”
Mark 8:17 – “Jesus, aware of this, said”
John 5:6 – “Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time”
John 6:15 – “Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew”
John 13:11 – “For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, ‘Not all of you are clean’”
John 19:28 – “After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst’”
About the Father
John 5:32 – “There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true”
John 11:42 – “I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
John 12:50 – “And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
John 13:3 – “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God”
About Himself
John 6:6 – “he himself knew what he would do”
John 8:14 – “Jesus answered, ‘Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.’”
Luke 8:46 – “But Jesus said, ‘Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me’”
John 13:1 – “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour has come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”
John 13:3 – “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God”
What will happen
John 13:11 – “For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, ‘Not all of you are clean.’”
John 18:4 – “Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, ‘Whom do you seek?’”
Everything
John 21:17 – “Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and he said to him, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.’”
Knowledge and Action
Action as a result of knowing
Gen 20:6 – “Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.”
Gen 38:9 – “But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.”
1 Sam 20:33, 34 – “But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.”
2 Sam 19:20 – “For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
2 Kgs 5:15 – “Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, ‘Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.’”
2 Kgs 7:12 – “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”
Neh 13:10, 11 – “I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field. So I confronted the officials and said, ‘Why is the house of God forsaken?’ And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.”
Esther 4:1 – “When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.”
Is 48:4, 5 – “Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’”
Matt 12:15 – “Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there.”
Matt 12:25; Luke 11:17 – “knowing their thoughts, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.’”
Matt 14:35 – “And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick”
Matt 16:8 – “But Jesus, aware of this, said, ‘O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?’”
Matt 22:18 – “But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, ‘Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?’”
Matt 26:10 – “But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.’”
Matt 27:17, 18 – “Pilate said to them, ‘Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?’ For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.”
Mark 2:8 – “And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, ‘Why do you question these things in your hearts?’”
Mark 5:30 – “And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my garments?’”
Mark 5:33 – “the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth”
Mark 6:20 – “for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe”
Mark 6:33 – “Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.”
Mark 6:38 – “And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
Mark 6:54, 55 – “And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.”
Mark 8:17 – “And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?’”
Mark 12:12 – “And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.”
Mark 12:15 – “knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, ‘Why put me to the test?’”
Mark 15:9, 10 – “And he answered them, saying, ‘Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?’ For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.”
Mark 15:45 – “And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.”
Luke 1:22 – “And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple”
Luke 5:22 – “When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, ‘Why do you question in your hearts?’”
Luke 6:8 – “But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Come and stand here.’”
Luke 7:37 – “And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment”
Luke 8:53 – “And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead”
Luke 9:11 – “when the crowds learned it, they followed him”
Luke 9:47 – “Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side”
Luke 11:17 – “But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.’”
Luke 20:19 – “The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people”
Luke 23:7 – “And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.”
John 2:24, 25 – “But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.”
John 4:1-3 – “Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.”
John 4:10 – “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 5:6 – “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be healed?’”
John 6:6 – “He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.”
John 6:15 – “Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.”
John 6:61 – “But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, ‘Do you take offense at this?’”
John 12:9 – “When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.”
John 13:1 – “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”
John 13:3-5 – “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”
John 13:11 – “For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, ‘Not all of you are clean.’”
John 13:17 – “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
John 16:19 – “Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, ‘Is this what you are asking yourselves’”?
John 18:4 – “Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, ‘Whom do you seek?’”
John 19:28 – “After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst’”
Acts 2:30 – “Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne”
Acts 9:30 – “And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.”
Acts 17:13 – “But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.”
Acts 19:34 – “But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!’”
Acts 20:25, 26 – “And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all”
Acts 22:29 – “So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.”
Acts 23:6 – “Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, ‘Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees.’”
Acts 24:22 – “But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, ‘When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.’”
Rom 5:3 – “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance”
Rom 6:8, 9 – “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.” (NKJV)
1 Cor 15:58 – “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
2 Cor 1:7 – “Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort”
2 Cor 4:13, 14 – “And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus”
2 Cor 4:18-5:1 – “while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
2 Cor 5:6 – “So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord”
2 Cor 5:11 – “Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others”
Gal 2:16 – “yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law”
Eph 5:3-5 – “But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.”
Eph 6:5-8 – “Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling… knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord”
Eph 6:9 – “Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.”
Phil 1:16 – “The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.”
Php 1:18, 19 – “Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice. For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ”
Col 3:23, 24 – “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”
Col 4:1 – “Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.”
1 Thess 1:2-4 – “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.”
1 Thess 4:1, 2 – “Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.”
2 Thess 3:6, 7 – “But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us”
2 Tim 1:12 – “For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”
2 Tim 2:23 – “Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.”
2 Tim 3:14 – “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it”
Titus 3:10, 11 – “As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”
Philemon 21 – “Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.”
Heb 10:34 – “for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.”
James 3:1 – “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”
1 Peter 1:17, 18 – “And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold”
1 Peter 5:9 – “Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.”
2 Pet 1:13 – I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
2 Pet 1:14 – since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
2 Peter 1:19, 20 – “And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation”
2 Peter 3:2, 3 – “that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts”
1 John 2:29 – “If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him”
Rev 12:12 – “Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Not acting despite knowing
Ex 21:36 – “Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past, and its owner has not kept it confined, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own”
Lev 5:1 – “If a person sins in hearing the utterance of an oath, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of the matter—if he does not tell it, he bears guilt”
Matt 25:26, 27; Luke 19:22, 23 – “You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
Luke 12:47 – “And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.”
Rom 1:21 – “because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened”
James 4:17 – “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
Acting contrary to knowledge
Rom 1:32 – “who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them”
2 Peter 2:21 – “For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.”
Knowing as a result of actions
Gen 22:12 – He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Deut 8:2 – “testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not”
Deut 13:3 – “you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Josh 22:31 – “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD.”
Judges 3:4 – “They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”
Job 31:6 – “Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!”
Ps 139:23 – “search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts”
Jer 12:3 – “But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you.”
John 13:35 – “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 17:23 – “that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them”
Acts 21:24 – “take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.”
Phil 2:22 – “But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.”
1 John 2:3 – “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.”
1 John 3:16 – “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
1 John 3:19 – “By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him”
1 John 3:24 – “And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.”
1 John 4:13 – “By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
1 John 5:2 – “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.”
