Jacob said, "I have seen God face-to-face, and I am still alive"; so he named the place Peniel.

I will not let you see my face, because no one can see me and stay alive,

As you advanced, he drove out nations greater and more powerful than you, so that he might bring you in and give you their land, the land which still belongs to you.

Has any human being ever lived after hearing the living God speak from a fire?

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

And the Father, who sent me, also testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his face,