John 8:55

New English Translation

Yet you do not know him, but 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 obey his teaching.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 9:3

The Lord says, “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

Hosea 5:4

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

Luke 10:22

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 15:10

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

John 17:25

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

John 6:46

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

John 8:19

Then they began asking him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

John 8:29

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

John 8:44

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:51

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

John 8:52

Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

Acts 17:23

For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

1 John 1:6

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

1 John 2:22

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:4

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

1 John 5:10

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

Revelation 3:9

Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan – who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying – Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.