²² and he said to his wife, “We will certainly die, for we have seen God!”

²⁶ Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire as we did and yet survive?

³⁰ Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God,^[a] is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.

³⁷ And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. You have never heard his voice or seen him face to face,

⁵ Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”

²⁰ But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.”

²² When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he cried out, “Oh, Sovereign Lord, I’m doomed! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”

³⁸ He drove out nations far greater than you, so he could bring you in and give you their land as your special possession, as it is today.