John 8:55
Good News Translation
You have never known 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 word.

New Revised Standard Version
though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his word.

Contemporary English Version
even though you don't really know him. If I said I didn't know him, I would be a liar, just like all of you. But I know him, and I do what he says.

New American Bible
You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.

ye have not.

John 8:19 They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also.

John 7:28,29 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. . . .

John 15:21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3 And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

John 17:25 Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:3 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Hosea 5:4 They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Acts 17:23 For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you:

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

but.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father: but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

John 7:29 I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.

John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

shall.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

1 John 2:4,22 He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him. . . .

1 John 5:10 He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.

and keep.

John 8:29,51 And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him. . . .

Context
Before Abraham was Born, I Am
54Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God. 55And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word. 56Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it and was glad.…
Cross References
John 7:29
I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.

John 8:19
They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

John 8:51
Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

John 8:52
The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3
And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

John 8:54
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