John 1:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “Thou art a God of seeing”; for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

Genesis 18:33

And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

John 1:11

He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

John 1:3

all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

John 1:5

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 17:25

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.”

Acts 14:17

yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

1 Corinthians 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.

1 Corinthians 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 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Colossians 1:16

for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.