What Does the Bible Say About Knowing And Not Knowing God?

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 John 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

James 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

John 4:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 3:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 6:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ...

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jeremiah 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

34 Bible Verses about Knowing And Not Knowing God

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 6:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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34 Bible Verses about Knowing And Not Knowing God

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Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 6:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 22:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Jeremiah 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes