²³ then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

²⁰ He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

⁷ "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.