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John 14:7

In 9 translations

BSB: If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
KJV: If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
WEB: If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”
ASV: If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
LSV: if you had known Me, you would also have known My Father, and from this time you have known Him, and have seen Him.”
YLT: if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'
DBY: If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and henceforth ye know him and have seen him.
DRC: If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him, and you have seen him.
GNV: If ye had knowen mee, ye should haue knowen my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and haue seene him.

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Where the editions differ

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NA28, NA27 read ἐγνώκατέ (“you have known”); Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐγνώκειτέ (“you had known”).
NA28, NA27 read γνώσεσθε (“you will know”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐγνώκειτε (“you had known”); Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ᾔδειτε (“you had known”).
In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ (“and”); Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include αὐτόν (“Him”); Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (4)

Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ἂν elsewhere in this verse.
In STEPBible’s comparison, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἂν (“then”); NA28, NA27 do not include this wording.
Word order: Tyndale House place ἀπ᾽ elsewhere in this verse.
Spelling of γινώσκετε: Tyndale House: γεινώσκετε.

SBLGNT apparatus (4)

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SBLGNT: ἐγνώκειτέ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, the Greek text behind the NIV, Robinson–Pierpont read ἐγνώκειτέ; Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐγνώκατέ.
SBLGNT: ἂν ᾔδειτε. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, the Greek text behind the NIV read ἂν ᾔδειτε; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐγνώκειτε ἄν; Nestle–Aland 28th edition read γνώσεσθε.
SBLGNT: ἀπʼ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles read ἀπʼ; Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read καὶ ἀπʼ.
SBLGNT: αὐτόν. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read αὐτόν; Westcott and Hort (1881) omit this wording.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με, καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου ἂν ᾔδειτε· ἀπʼ ἄρτι γινώσκετε αὐτὸν καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν.
RP2018: Εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με, καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου ἐγνώκειτε ἄν· καὶ ἀπ’ ἄρτι γινώσκετε αὐτόν, καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν.
TR-Boyd: Εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με, καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου ἐγνώκειτε ἄν· καὶ ἀπ᾿ ἄρτι γινώσκετε αὐτόν, καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν.
SCR1894: ει εγνωκειτε με και τον πατερα μου εγνωκειτε αν και απ αρτι γινωσκετε αυτον και εωρακατε αυτον

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Comforter Thessalonians, the Second Epistle of Paul to the John, Gospel of Apostles Atonement Providence Christ Is God Trinity Johannine Theology Wisdom

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Cross-references most cited first

Colossians 1:15–17The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or…
John 8:19“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
John 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
John 14:9–10Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father…
John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
John 17:21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
John 17:26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Hebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on…
John 14:16–20And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides…
John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
Colossians 2:2–3that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of…

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