Q. What is the verse that indicates that God has always known us, even before we were born. Where is it located in the Bible?

A. There are many verses that indicate that the Lord has known us before we were born and I’ll deal with a few right now. God is outside of time, and He is not limited in what He does or knows like we are. That is the whole concept behind the prophecies in the Bible. He knows the players and the situations that He will use to ultimately bring about His desired purposes. For instance, Pharaoh was raised up for the very purposes he played out in the Exodus. Paul even refers to this in Romans 9.17. In Isaiah 45.1 he actually names a Persian King named Cyrus many years before he was even born and tells what he will do and that the Lord was the one who was going to raise him up and bring it about. Daniel 8.5-8 is a prophecy about Alexander the Great and what would happen to him and it continues to describe world history and specific kings that would come and what they would do in relation the people of Israel. In Jeremiah 1. 5 it says that God knew Jeremiah before he was formed in the womb. In Psalms 139 the doctrines on omniscience and omnipresence of God are described. In v 16 it says that God’s eyes saw the writer’s “unformed substance” wrote down in a scroll all the days ordained to him when “yet there were none.” In Ephesians 1.4 it says that God chose us in Him (those who would believe) before the foundation of the world, and compare this with Roman 8.29-30 and you will see that everything was “set” before we ever drew our first breath. There are many verses that teach us that God knew us and planned out our lives before we were ever born and there is no doubt about that. I could mention Judas, who was specifically raised up to do what he did, Isaac who was predicted to be born a year ahead of time and even given the name he was to be called, Jacob and Esau, John the Baptist was also named and prophesied about before he was born, and the greatest example of this is Yeshua Himself. So, God knew us before the world was even created and no human being is an accident but has a specific role in God’s plan.