²² When Gideon realized^(A) that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”^(B)

³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[a] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,^(A) and yet my life was spared.”

²⁰ But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see^(A) me and live.”

²⁶ For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?^(A)

⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory^(A) and spoke about him.^(B)

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God,^(A) but the one and only Son, who is himself God and^[a](B) is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

⁵ “Woe^(A) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!^(B) For I am a man of unclean lips,^(C) and I live among a people of unclean lips,^(D) and my eyes have seen^(E) the King,^(F) the Lord Almighty.”^(G)

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal^(H) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;^(I) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.^(J)”

⁸ Then I heard the voice^(K) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?^(L) And who will go for us?^(M)”

And I said, “Here am I.^(N) Send me!”

²¹ When the angel of the Lord did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized^(A) that it was the angel of the Lord.

²² “We are doomed^(B) to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen^(C) God!”

²³ But his wife answered, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”^(D)

²⁴ And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us^(A) his glory and his majesty,^(B) and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.^(C)