Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Holman Bible
The One and Only
the One who is at the Father’s
He has revealed Him.
International Standard Version
No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.
A Conservative Version
No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.
American Standard Version
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him .
Amplified
No one has seen God [His essence, His divine nature] at any time; the [One and] only begotten God [that is, the unique Son] who is in the intimate presence of the Father, He has explained Him [and interpreted and revealed the awesome wonder of the Father].
An Understandable Version
No one has ever seen God [i.e., His full splendor], but God, the only conceived [and eventually born Son], who is at the Father's side, has shown us who He is.
Anderson New Testament
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Common New Testament
No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.
Daniel Mace New Testament
no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, who is intimate with the father, hath made him known.
Darby Translation
No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Godbey New Testament
No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, the one being in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him.
John Wesley New Testament
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
King James 2000
No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.
Modern King James verseion
No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten son, which is in the father's bosom, hath declared him.
Moffatt New Testament
Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.
Montgomery New Testament
No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.
NET Bible
No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
New Heart English Bible
No one has seen God at any time. The only God, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
Noyes New Testament
No one hath ever seen God; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath made him known.
Sawyer New Testament
No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared [him].
The Emphasized Bible
No one, hath seen, God, at any time: An Only Begotten God, The One existing within the bosom of the Father, He, hath interpreted him .
Thomas Haweis New Testament
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath thoroughly described him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
No man has ever yet seen God; God the Only Son, who is ever with the Father--He has revealed him.
Webster
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Weymouth New Testament
No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.
Williams New Testament
No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.
World English Bible
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
Worrell New Testament
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He declared Him.
Worsley New Testament
and though no one hath ever seen God, or can see Him: yet the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, hath made Him known.
Youngs Literal Translation
God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
Themes
Christ » Names of » Only begotten son
Declaration » Jesus Christ declaring God the father
Jesus Christ » Divinity of » The one and only son of the father
Jesus Christ » History of » John's testimony concerning him
Names » Of Christ » Only begotten son
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Verse Info
Context Readings
The Prologue To John's Gospel
17 For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ. 18 None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared. 19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that they might ask him, Who art thou?
Cross References
Matthew 11:27
All things were delivered to me by my Father; and none knows the Son, except the Father; nor knows any one the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal
John 6:46
Not that any one has seen the Father, except he being from God, he has seen the Father.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.
1 John 4:9
In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him.
1 John 4:12
None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.
Luke 10:22
All things were delivered me by my Father: and none knows who is the Son, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son would wish to reveal.
John 1:14
And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Exodus 23:21
Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him.
Isaiah 40:11
As a shepherd he will feed his flock: with his arm he will gather the lambs, and will lift up into his bosom, he will lead those coming up.
John 12:41
These said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
John 13:23
And there was one of his disciples reclining on the bosom of Jesus, whom he loved.
1 John 4:20
If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Genesis 16:13
And she will call the name of Jehovah, having spoken to her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Here also I looked after him seeing me.
Genesis 18:33
And Jehovah went forth after that he finished to speak to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 32:28-30
And he will say, Thy name shall no more be said Jacob, but Israel, for thou wert a prince with God and with men, and thou shalt prevail.
Genesis 48:15-16
And he will bless Joseph, and will say, God, before whom my fathers went, Abraham and Isaak, the God having fed me, from ever since I was till this day.
Exodus 3:4-6
And Jehovah will see that he turned aside to see, and God will call to him from the midst of the bramble, and he will say, Moses, Moses! And he will say, Behold me.
Exodus 33:18-23
And he will say, Cause me now to see thy glory.
Exodus 34:5-7
And Jehovah will come down in a cloud, and he will stand with him there, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.
Numbers 12:8
Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
Deuteronomy 4:12
And Jehovah will speak to you from the midst of the fire, ye hearing a voice of words, and ye seeing not an appearance, except a voice.
Joshua 5:13-2
And it will be in Joshua's being by Jericho, and he will lift up his eyes and will see, and behold, a man standing before him and his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua will go to him and say to him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries?
Judges 6:12-26
And the messenger of Jehovah will be seen to him, and he will say to him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty of strength.
Judges 13:20-23
And it will be in the going up of the flame from the altar to the heavens, and the messenger of Jehovah will go up in the flame of the altar and Manoah and his wife seeing; and they will fall upon their face to the earth.
Proverbs 8:30
And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time
Isaiah 6:1-3
In the year king Uzziah died, and I shall see Jehovah sitting upon his throne, high and lifted up, and his train filling the temple.
Lamentations 2:12
To their mothers will they say, Where the grain and wine? in their languishing as the wounded in the broad places of the city, in the pouring out of their soul into their mothers bosom.
Ezekiel 1:26-28
And from above to the expansion which was over their head as the appearance of a sapphire stone: the likeness of a throne, and over the likeness of a throne, the likeness as the appearance of a man upon it from above.
Hosea 12:3-5
In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.
Luke 16:22-23
And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;
John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
John 14:9
Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?,
John 17:6
I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
John 17:26
And I made known to them thy name, and I will make known: that the love with which thou lovedst me might be in them, and I in them.
1 Timothy 1:17
And to the King of times, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, honour and glory for the times of times. Amen.)