The word in Scripture

Knowledge in the Bible

The word knowledge appears 172 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Knowledge is knowing God truly, not merely knowing facts about Him. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What knowledge means in the Bible

Knowledge is knowing God truly, not merely knowing facts about Him.

Where the word knowledge appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word knowledge appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.”Psalms 14:4

“Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.”Psalms 53:4

“The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.”Isaiah 32:4

“And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.”Isaiah 33:6

“An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.”Romans 2:20

“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”Romans 10:2

“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”Ephesians 3:19

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”Hebrews 10:26