John 1:10

God's Word

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet, the world didn’t recognize him.

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

Hagar named the Lord, who had been speaking to her, “You Are the God Who Watches Over Me.” She said, “This is the place where I watched ⌞the one⌟ who watches over me.”

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said to Abram, “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence with integrity.

Genesis 18:33

When the Lord finished speaking to Abraham, he left. Abraham returned home.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by people. He was a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering. He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces, and we didn’t consider him to be worth anything.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has turned everything over to me. Only the Father knows the Son. And no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.

John 1:11

He went to his own people, and his own people didn’t accept him.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. God’s only Son, the one who is closest to the Father’s heart, has made him known.

John 1:3

Everything came into existence through him. Not one thing that exists was made without him.

John 1:5

The light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it.

John 17:25

Father, you have done what is right and the world didn’t know you. Yet, I knew you, and these ⌞disciples⌟ have known that you sent me.

John 5:17

Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”

Acts 14:17

Yet, by doing good, he has given evidence of his existence. He gives you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons. He fills you with food and your lives with happiness.”

1 Corinthians 1:21

The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 8:6

But for us, “There is only one God, the Father. Everything came from him, and we live for him. There is only one Lord, Jesus Christ. Everything came into being through him, and we live because of him.”

Colossians 1:16

He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers— everything has been created through him and for him.

Hebrews 11:3

Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen.

1 John 3:1

Consider this: The Father has given us his love. He loves us so much that we are actually called God’s dear children. And that’s what we are. For this reason the world doesn’t recognize us, and it didn’t recognize him either.