John 8:55

New Century Version

You don’t really know him, but I know him. If I said I did not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey what he says.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are stupid children; they don’t understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 9:3

“They use their tongues like a bow, shooting lies from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in the land. They go from one evil thing to another. They do not know who I am,” says the Lord.

Hosea 5:4

“They will not give up their deeds and return to their God. They are determined to be unfaithful to me; they do not know the Lord.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son, except the Father. And no one knows the Father, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell.

Luke 10:22

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. But God the only Son is very close to the Father, and he has shown us what God is like.

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I give my life for the sheep.

John 15:10

I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and I remain in his love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will remain in my love.

John 15:21

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me.

John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known the Father and they have not known me.

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me.

John 6:46

No one has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

John 8:19

They asked, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You don’t know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father, too.”

John 8:29

The One who sent me is with me. I always do what is pleasing to him, so he has not left me alone.”

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:51

I tell you the truth, whoever obeys my teaching will never die.”

John 8:52

They said to Jesus, “Now we know that you have a demon in you! Even Abraham and the prophets died. But you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never die.’

Acts 17:23

As I was going through your city, I saw the objects you worship. I found an altar that had these words written on it: to a god who is not known. You worship a god that you don’t know, and this is the God I am telling you about!

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “Let the light shine out of the darkness!” This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

1 John 1:6

So if we say we have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, we are liars and do not follow the truth.

1 John 2:22

Who is the liar? It is the person who does not accept Jesus as the Christ. This is the enemy of Christ: the person who does not accept the Father and his Son.

1 John 2:4

Anyone who says, “I know God,” but does not obey God’s commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

1 John 5:10

Anyone who believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. Anyone who does not believe makes God a liar, because that person does not believe what God told us about his Son.

Revelation 3:9

Those in the synagogue that belongs to Satan say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews; they are liars. I will make them come before you and bow at your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.