²⁰ But He said, “You cannot see My face; for ^(A)no man shall see Me, and live.”

^18 (A)No one has seen God at any time. ^(B)The only begotten ^[a]Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

³⁰ So Jacob called the name of the place ^[a]Peniel: “For ^(A)I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in ^(A)unapproachable light, ^(B)whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

⁵ So I said:

²² Now Gideon ^(A)perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! ^(B)For I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.”

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

²⁴ And you said: ‘Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and ^(A)we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he ^(B)still lives.

¹⁰ and they ^(A)saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of ^(B)sapphire stone, and it was like the ^(C)very^[a] heavens in its clarity.