John 1:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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 18:33

And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Exodus 23:21

Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, 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 of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Proverbs 8:30

then I was beside him, like a master worker, and I was daily his delight, playing before him always,

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

Lamentations 2:12

They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosoms.

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?”

Matthew 11:27

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

Luke 10:22

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

John 12:41

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.

John 13:23

One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining close to his heart;

John 14:9

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 17:26

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

John 17:6

“I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

John 3:11

“Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you do not receive 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

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Deuteronomy 4:12

Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; 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

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 6:16

It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

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?”

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:9

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.