²³ Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

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

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.

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.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.