¹² No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

⁵ But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

²⁰ If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

¹⁶ Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

¹⁷ In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

²⁴ He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

²⁷ By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.

¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

³⁰ And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

⁶ We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

²⁰ But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.