16 Bible Verses about Not Seeing God

Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

"Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."

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

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORDin the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

And he said, "I am the God of your 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 at God.

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.