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.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."

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?"

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

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

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.

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

Love one

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

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By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

General references

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."