SPIRITUAL INTIMACY

God “knowing” man

Hebrew

yada           to know, to ascertain by seeing, by observation, for a certainty, comprehend, discern, perceive, be sure, of a surety, understand

Exodus 33:12 “And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou will send with me.  Yet thou has said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.”

Exodus 33:16-17 “For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight?  Is it not in that thou goest with us?  So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.  And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.”

Deuteronomy 8:2 “And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”

Deuteronomy 13:3 “Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your soul.”

Joshua 22:22 “The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, save us not this day.”

I Chronicles 29:17 “I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness.  As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.”

Psalm 1:6 “For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

Psalm 31:7 “I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;”

Psalm 37:18 “The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.”

Psalm 44:21 “Shall not God search this out?  For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.”

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

Psalm 139:1-3 “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.  Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”

Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Psalm 142:3 “When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.  In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.”

Isaiah 52:6 “Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore

they shall know in that day that I am he that doeth speak: behold, it is I.”

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

Jeremiah 12:3 “But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.”

Jeremiah 24:7 “And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”

Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.”

God “knowing” Man

Greek

ginosko  to know absolutely, perceive, be sure, understand

Matthew 7:23 “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Luke 16:15 “And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”

Luke 24:35 “And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.”

John 2:25 “And Jesus needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.”

John 10:14 “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”

Hebrew

Man “knowing” God

yada to know, to ascertain by seeing, observation, recognition, acknowledge, acquaintance, assuredly, be aware, certainly, comprehend, discern, knowledge, perceive, be sure, of a surety, understand

Exodus 6:7 “And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.”

Exodus 10:2 “And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what thing I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.”

Exodus 29:45-46 “And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.  And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.”

Exodus 31:13 “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.”

Exodus 33:13-15 “Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.  And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.  And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. ”

Deuteronomy 4:35 “Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightiest know that the Lord he is god: there is none else beside him.”

Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generation;”

Deuteronomy 29:5-6 “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.  Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.”

I Chronicles 28:9 “And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of my father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thought: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.”

Joshua 3:10 “And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.”

Joshua 24:31 “And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that over lived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.”

Judges 17:13 “then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.”

I Samuel 3:7 “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.”

II Samuel 7:20 “And what can David say more unto thee? For thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.”

I Kings 8:60 “That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.”

I Kings 20:28 “And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”

II Kings 19:19 “Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.”

Job 19:25 “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”

Psalm 36:10 “O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.”

Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 100:3 “Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

Psalm 135:5 “For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.”

Ezekiel 20:19-20 “I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them: And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.”

Isaiah 38:23 “Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”

Joel 3:17 “So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore.”

Man “knowing” God

Greek

ginosko  to know absolutely, perceive, be sure, understand

 John 8:32 “Ye shall know the truth (Jesus) and the truth (Jesus) shall set you free.”

John 10:4 “And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.”

John 11:27 “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”

I Corinthians 2:2 “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

I Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

II Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.  Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

II Timothy 1:12 “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”

Titus 1:16 “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”

Hebrews 8:11 “And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.”

I John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,

we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

I John 3:14 “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.  He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”

I John 5:13 “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

I John 5:20 “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.  This is the true God, and eternal life.”