If you want to know God more deeply right now, these verses are meant to be prayed directly.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psalms 37:18
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalms 46:10
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms 91:14
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms 103:7
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Psalms 103:14
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms 103:16
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psalms 139:1
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms 139:2
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Psalms 139:4
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psalms 139:6
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalms 139:14
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Psalms 139:23
To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
Psalms 145:12
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:6
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3:20
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 3:21
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:14
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40:21
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
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Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Every verse gathered in Bible Verses For Knowing God was originally written as part of a larger passage, letter, or narrative. Reading a single verse on its own is genuinely useful, but if one particular verse stands out to you, it is worth taking a few extra minutes to read the surrounding chapter. Context rarely changes what a verse means, but it often deepens it.
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Every verse in Bible Verses For Knowing God is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses For Knowing God were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
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Twenty verses is enough to give a genuine sense of how often Scripture returns to this subject, without becoming so long that no single verse gets the attention it deserves. Shorter lists risk missing important passages; much longer ones risk turning into a list nobody actually reads all the way through.
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A handful of verses in Bible Verses For Knowing God tend to stand out more than the rest on repeated reading, though which ones stand out often differs from person to person. There is no wrong choice here — the verse that matters most is usually the one that speaks directly to whatever you are carrying at the time you read it.
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