16 Bible Verses about Not Seeing God

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything -- only a voice was heard.

Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."

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

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

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

If anyone says "I love God" and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

"I thought, 'I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.

He added, "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, because he was afraid to look at God.

I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.