16 Bible Verses about Not Seeing God

And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.

Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.