²⁰ But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for ^(A)man shall not see me and live.”

^18 (A)No one has ever seen God; ^(B)the only God,^[a] who is at the Father's side,^{[b] (C)}he has made him known.

³⁰ So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,^[a] saying, “For ^(A)I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

^16 (A)who alone has immortality, ^(B)who dwells in ^(C)unapproachable light, ^(D)whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

⁵ And I said: “Woe is me! ^(A)For I am lost; ^(B)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ^(C)King, the Lord of hosts!”

²² Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, ^(A)“Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”

²² And Manoah said to his wife, ^(A)“We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”

²⁴ And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and ^(A)greatness, and ^(B)we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man ^(C)still live.

¹⁰ and they ^(A)saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of ^(B)sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

^16 (A)In his right hand he held seven stars, ^(B)from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and ^(C)his face was like the sun shining ^(D)in full strength.