John 1:10
Good News Translation
The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the world did not recognize him.

New Revised Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.

Contemporary English Version
The Word was in the world, but no one knew him, though God had made the world with his Word.

New American Bible
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

was in.

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 5:17 But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

Genesis 11:6-9 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. . . .

Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 18:33 And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.

Exodus 3:4-6 And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am. . . .

Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 17:24-27 God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. . . .

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high:

and the world was.

John 1:3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

Jeremiah 10:11,12 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven. . . .

Hebrews 1:2 In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.

knew.

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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.

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.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

Context
The Witness of John
9That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. 10He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own: and his own received him not.…
Cross References
Isaiah 53:3
Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

John 1:3
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

John 1:11
He came unto his own: and his own received him not.

1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Colossians 1:16
For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him.

Hebrews 1:2
In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

John 1:9
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