With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he shall behold the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

And above the firmament 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 upon it above.

No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

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

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the

The invisible

Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he persevered as seeing the invisible.

The firstborn

Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

I also will make him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

Of every

Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and TRUE witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

General references

To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?

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

And he who sees me sees him who sent me.