and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were work of transparent sapphire, and as it were the form of heaven for clearness.

Mouth to mouth do I speak to him openly, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah doth he behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

And above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

The invisible

Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.

The firstborn

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.

Of every

because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

General references

To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

To whom will ye liken me and make me equal, or compare me, that we may be like?

and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me.