27 Bible Verses about Revelation, Necessity Of
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No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.
And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.
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.
Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.read more.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me. There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him, on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.
[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain to it.
Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Who has {has known the mind (LXX/NT)} of LORD, or being his counselor has taught him? With whom did he take counsel. And who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice. And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!
in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.read more.
Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. Professing to be wise, they became foolish, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly. Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents; without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.
For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.
But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.
This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.
God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.
And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about him, and cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me came to be before me, because he was before me. And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace.read more.
Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ. No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.
And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.
who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.read more.
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things. Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens.