Exodus 33:20

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.

Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look.

But which of the angels has he told at any time, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.