John 1:18

New English Translation

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”

Genesis 18:33

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

Exodus 23:21

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

Exodus 24:10

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

Proverbs 8:30

then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

Lamentations 2:12

Children say to their mothers, “Where are food and drink?” They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers’ arms. מ (Mem)

Numbers 12:8

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

Luke 10:22

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

John 1:14

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

John 12:41

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.

John 13:23

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

John 14:9

Jesus replied, “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 17:26

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

John 17:6

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

John 3:11

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

John 6:46

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

2 Corinthians 4:4

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

Deuteronomy 4:12

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard.

Colossians 1:15

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

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

Joshua 5:13

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?”

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 4:20

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:9

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.