16 Bible Verses about Not Seeing God

Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice.

“So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”

Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”

“How much less when you say you do not behold Him,
The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,
Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,
Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.