Numbers 12:8

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.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

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

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

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.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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

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

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

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

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.

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.”

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.

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

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

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

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?

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.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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

When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

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.

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?

“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

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

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

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.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,