16 Bible Verses about Not Seeing God

And LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form, only a voice.

Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves, for ye saw no manner of form on the day that LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.

And I will take away my hand, and thou shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

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

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

And the Father, he who sent me, has testified about me.Ye have neither heard his voice, nor have ever seen his appearance.

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

Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.

Every man abiding in him does not sin. Every man who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.

If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

I said, I shall not see LORD, [even] LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides thee, [what] he has prepared for him who waits for him.

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But Moses, who developed trembling, dared not examine.