John 1:18

God's Word

No one has ever seen God. God’s only Son, the one who is closest to the Father’s heart, has made him known.

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

Hagar named the Lord, who had been speaking to her, “You Are the God Who Watches Over Me.” She said, “This is the place where I watched ⌞the one⌟ who watches over me.”

Genesis 18:33

When the Lord finished speaking to Abraham, he left. Abraham returned home.

Exodus 23:21

Pay attention to him, and listen to him. Don’t defy him, because he will not forgive your disobedience. He is acting on my authority.

Exodus 24:10

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made out of sapphire as clear and blue as the sky itself.

Proverbs 8:30

I was beside him as a master craftsman. I made him happy day after day, I rejoiced in front of him all the time,

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd he takes care of his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms. He carries them in his arms. He gently helps the sheep and their lambs.

Lamentations 2:12

They’re asking their mothers for some bread and wine as they faint like wounded people in the city streets. Their lives dwindle away in their mothers’ arms.

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles. He even sees the form of the Lord. Why weren’t you afraid to criticize my servant Moses?”

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has turned everything over to me. Only the Father knows the Son. And no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.

Luke 10:22

“My Father has turned everything over to me. Only the Father knows who the Son is. And no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.”

John 1:14

The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness  and truth.

John 12:41

Isaiah said this because he had seen Jesus’ glory and had spoken about him.

John 13:23

One disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, was near him at the table.

John 14:9

Jesus replied, “I have been with all of you for a long time. Don’t you know me yet, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 17:26

I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them.”

John 17:6

“I made your name known to the people you gave me. They are from this world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They did what you told them.

John 3:11

I can guarantee this truth: We know what we’re talking about, and we confirm what we’ve seen. Yet, you don’t accept our message.

John 6:46

I’m saying that no one has seen the Father. Only the one who is from God has seen the Father.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

Deuteronomy 4:12

The Lord spoke to you from the fire. You heard a voice speaking but saw no one. There was only a voice.

Colossians 1:15

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

1 Timothy 1:17

Worship and glory belong forever to the eternal king, the immortal, invisible, and only God. Amen.

1 Timothy 6:16

He is the only one who cannot die. He lives in light that no one can come near. No one has seen him, nor can they see him. Honor and power belong to him forever! Amen.

Joshua 5:13

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you one of us or one of our enemies?”

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:20

Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates another believer is a liar. People who don’t love other believers, whom they have seen, can’t love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:9

God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.

1 John 5:20

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