Genesis 32:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

So she named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are El-roi,” for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 35:9

God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there; he went out from there and built Penuel.

Exodus 33:14

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 9:5

For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

John 1:18

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

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the 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 Christ.

Galatians 1:6

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him,

Deuteronomy 34:10

Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

Deuteronomy 5:24

and you said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. We have seen this day that God may speak to someone and the person may still live.

Colossians 1:15

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

2 Timothy 1:10

but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible.

Joshua 5:13

Once when Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing before him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you one of us or one of our adversaries?”

Judges 13:17

Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?”

Judges 13:18

But the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.”

Judges 8:17

He also broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Judges 8:8

From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, and the people of Penuel answered him as the people of Succoth had answered.