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John 1:18

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No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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  1. Colossians 1:15Rank 1 from verse 18
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    15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

  2. John 6:46Rank 2 from verse 18
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    46Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

  3. Matthew 11:27Rank 3 from verse 18
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    27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

  4. Luke 10:22Rank 4 from verse 18
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    22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

  5. 1 John 4:12Rank 5 from verse 18
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    12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

  6. 1 Timothy 6:16Rank 6 from verse 18
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    16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

  7. 1 John 4:9Rank 7 from verse 18
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    9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

  8. 1 John 4:20Rank 8 from verse 18
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    20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

  9. Exodus 33:18–23Rank 9 from verse 18
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    18And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

    19And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

    20And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

    21And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

    22And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

    23And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

  10. 1 John 5:20Rank 10 from verse 18
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    20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  11. John 17:26Rank 11 from verse 18
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    26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

  12. John 1:14Rank 12 from verse 18
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    14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

  13. John 14:9Rank 13 from verse 18
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    9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

  14. John 17:6Rank 14 from verse 18
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    6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

  15. Deuteronomy 4:12Rank 15 from verse 18
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    12And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

  16. Numbers 12:8Rank 16 from verse 18
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    8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

  17. 1 Timothy 1:17Rank 17 from verse 18
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    17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

  18. Exodus 23:21Rank 18 from verse 18
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    21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

  19. Exodus 34:5–7Rank 19 from verse 18
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    5And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

    6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

    7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

  20. Isaiah 6:1–3Rank 20 from verse 18
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    1IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

    2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

    3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

  21. John 12:41Rank 21 from verse 18
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    41These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

  22. Ezekiel 1:26–28Rank 22 from verse 18
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    26¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

    27And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

    28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

  23. Genesis 16:13Rank 23 from verse 18
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    13And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

  24. Genesis 32:28–30Rank 24 from verse 18
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    28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

    29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

    30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

  25. Joshua 5:13–2Rank 25 from verse 18
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  26. Exodus 3:4–6Rank 26 from verse 18
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    4And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

    5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

    6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

  27. Judges 6:12–26Rank 27 from verse 18
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    12And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

    13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

    14And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

    15And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

    16And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

    17And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

    18Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

    19¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

    20And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

    21¶ Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

    22And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

    23And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.

    24Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

    25¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

    26And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

  28. Genesis 48:15–16Rank 28 from verse 18
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    15¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

    16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

  29. Isaiah 40:11Rank 29 from verse 18
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    11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

  30. Judges 13:20–23Rank 30 from verse 18
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    20For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

    21But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.

    22And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

    23But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

  31. Lamentations 2:12Rank 31 from verse 18
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    12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

  32. Luke 16:22–23Rank 32 from verse 18
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    22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

    23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

  33. Proverbs 8:30Rank 33 from verse 18
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    30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

  34. Genesis 18:33Rank 34 from verse 18
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    33And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

  35. Hosea 12:3–5Rank 35 from verse 18
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    3¶ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

    4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

    5Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.

  36. John 3:16–18Rank 36 from verse 18
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    16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

    18¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

  37. John 13:23Rank 37 from verse 18
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    23Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

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John 1:18

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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time

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A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.

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begotten

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Sense 1: Brought forth as offspring or standing in the stated relation of offspring. Sense 2: Brought forth, raised, or made alive in a spiritual or figurative relation.

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Son

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A title of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Son of man.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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declared

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of declare, meaning to make known, tell, announce, proclaim, explain, show, or state plainly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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1:15¶ John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

1:18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

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