So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”
1 John 4:12 - New Revised Standard Version No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us! American Standard Version (1901) No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us: Common English Bible No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. Catholic Public Domain Version No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us. |
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”
But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.”
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?”
No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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.
By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king's anger; for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible.
but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him:
All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.