No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, He who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him].

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

Now to the King of the Ages, immortal, invisible, [the] only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or is able to see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing the Unseen [One].

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God has shown [it] to them.

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? For they have not [power] to [continue]:)

let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High.

For I will regard the heavens, the work of Your fingers; the moon and stars, which You have established.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of His [mouth].

Let all the earth fear the Lord; and let all that dwell in the world be moved because of Him.

Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation; it shall not ever be moved.

Let the glory of the Lord be forever; the Lord shall rejoice in His works;

Your truth [endures] to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it abides.

For You, O Lord, have possessed my reins; You have helped me from my mother's womb.

Fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind; the things that perform His word.

wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds;

young men and virgins, old men with youths;

so that you may prove to be sons of your Father in heaven; because He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

[] but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, for obedience to the faith--

And Abraham planted a field at the Well of the Oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

And the rule of God shall protect you, and [that] under the strength of the everlasting arms; and He shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish.

Before the mountains existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, You are [God].

For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

they have trusted with confidence forever, the great, eternal God;

Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [Even] He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by [means of His] great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you.

Now to the King of the Ages, immortal, invisible, [the] only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?

"Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and the imagination of man.

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, everyone who judges, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself, for you who judge are practicing the same things.

who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing with [them], and among themselves their thoughts accuse or even defend [them]),

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

"Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now."