John 1:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.

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  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of all creatures.
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath seene God at any time. If we loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfect in vs.
  • John 6:46 : 46 Not that any man hath seene the father, saue he which is of God, the same hath seene the father.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only hath immortalitie, dwelling in the light that no man can attayne vnto, Whom no man hath seene, neither can see, vnto whom be honour & power euerlastyng. Amen.
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde, because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde, that we myght lyue through hym.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All thinges are geuen vnto me of my father: And no man knoweth the sonne but the father, neither knoweth any man the father saue the sonne, and he to whomsoeuer the sonne wyll open him.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All thynges are geuen me of my father. No man knoweth who the sonne is, but the father, and who the father is, but the sonne, and he to whom the sonne wyll shewe hym.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man say, I loue God, & yet hate his brother, he is a lyer: For how can he yt loueth not his brother whom he hath seene, loue God who he hath not seene?
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We knowe that the sonne of God is come, & hath geuen vs a minde to know hym which is true: and we are in hym that is true, through his sonne Iesus Christe. This same is very God, and eternall lyfe.
  • Exod 33:18-23 : 18 And he sayde: I beseche thee shewe me thy glorie. 19 Who aunswered: I wyll make all my good go before thee, & I wyll call in the name of Iehouah before thee: and wyl shewe mercy to whom I wyll shewe mercy, and wyll haue compassion, on whom I wyll haue compassion. 20 And he said furthermore, Thou mayest not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and lyue. 21 And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stande vpon a rocke. 22 And whyle my glory goeth foorth, I wyll put thee in a clyft of the rocke, and will put my hand vpon thee, while I passe by. 23 And I wyll take away myne hande, and thou shalt see my backe partes: but my face shall not be seene.
  • Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the Lord descended in the cloude, and stode with him there: and he called vpon the name of the Lorde. 6 And the Lorde passed by before hym, and cryed, Lorde, Lorde, God, strong, mercyfull and gracious, long suffering, and aboundaunt in goodnes & trueth, 7 And kepyng mercy in store for thousandes, forgeuing wickednes, vngodlynes and sinne, and not leauing one innocent, visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the chyldren, and vpon the chyldrens chyldren, euen vnto the third and fourth generation.
  • Num 12:8 : 8 Unto hym wyll I speake mouth to mouth in a vision, not in darke speaches and similitudes of the Lord shall he see: Wherfore then were ye not afrayde to speake against my seruaunt Moyses?
  • Deut 4:12 : 12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire, and ye hearde the voyce of the wordes: but sawe no similitude, saue hearde a voyce only.
  • Josh 5:13-6:2 : 13 And when Iosuah was nye to Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and loked: and behold, there stoode a man against him, hauing a sworde drawen in his hande: And Iosuah went vnto him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou on our syde, or on our aduersaries? 14 And he sayde, Naie: but as a captaine of the hoast of the Lord am I nowe come. And Iosuah fell on his face to ye earth, and did worship, and sayde vnto him: What saith my Lord vnto his seruaunt? 15 And the captaine of the Lordes hoast sayde vnto Iosuah: Do thy shoe of thy foote, for the place wheron thou standest, is holy. And Iosuah did so. 1 And Iericho was shut vp and closed, because of the childre of Israel, neither myght any man go out, or in. 2 And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah: Behold, I haue geuen into thyne hande Iericho, and the kyng therof, and the strong men of warre.
  • Gen 32:28-30 : 28 He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled. 29 And Iacob asked him, saying: tell me thy name. And he sayde: wherefore doest thou aske after my name? And he blessed hym there. 30 And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I haue seene God face to face, and my life is preserued.
  • Gen 48:15-16 : 15 And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day, 16 And the angell which hath deliuered me from al euyl, blesse these laddes, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they may growe into a multitude in the middes of the earth.
  • Exod 3:4-6 : 4 And when ye Lorde sawe that he came for to see, God called vnto him out of the middes of the busshe, & sayde: Moyses, Moyses? And he answered, here am I. 5 And he said: Draw not nigh hither, put thy shoes of thy feete, for the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground. 6 And he sayde: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob. And Moyses hid his face, for he was afrayde to loke vpon God.
  • Exod 23:21 : 21 Beware of hym, and heare his voyce, and resist him not: for he wyll not spare your misdeedes, and my name is in him.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 And she called the name of the Lorde that spake vnto her, Thou God lokest on me: for she sayde, haue I not also heare loked after hym that seeth mee?
  • Isa 6:1-3 : 1 In the yere that kyng Oziah dyed, I sawe also the Lorde sitting vpon an high and glorious seate, and his trayne filled the temple. 2 And about hym stoode Seraphims, whereof one had sixe winges, with twayne eche couered his face, with twayne his feete, and with twayne did he flee. 3 They cryed also eche one to another on this maner, Holy, holy, holy is the Lorde of hoastes: the whole earth is full of his glory.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He shall feede his flocke like an heardman, he shall gather the lambes together with his arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall kyndly intreate those that beare young.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Nowe, vnto the kyng euerlastyng, immortall, inuisible, vnto God onlye wise be honour and glorie for euer and euer, Amen.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym: Haue I ben so long tyme with you, & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath seene me, hath seene the father. And howe sayest thou then, shewe vs the father?
  • John 12:41 : 41 Such thynges sayde Esaias, when he sawe his glory, and spake of hym.
  • Ezek 1:26-28 : 26 And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades, there was the fashion of a throne lyke a Saphir stone: and vpon the similitude of the throne by appearaunce, as the similitude of a man aboue vpon it. 27 And I sawe as the appearaunce of amber and as the similitude of fire rounde about within, from the appearaunce of his loynes vpward: and from the appearaunce of his loynes downewarde I sawe as the lykenesse of fire, and brightnesse rounde about it. 28 As the likenesse of a bowe that is in a cloude in a raynie day, so was the appearaunce of the brightnesse rounde about: this was the appearaunce of the similitude of the glory of God, & when I sawe it, I fell vpon my face and hearkened vnto the voyce of one that spake.
  • John 17:26 : 26 And I haue declared vnto them thy name, and wyll declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.
  • Hos 12:3-5 : 3 He toke his brother by the heele when he was yet in his mothers wombe, and in his strength he wrestled with God: 4 He stroue with the angel and gat the victorie, he wept and prayed to him: he founde him at Bethel, and there he spake with vs. 5 Yea the Lorde God of hoastes, euen the Lorde himselfe remembred him.
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And it came to passe, that the begger dyed, and was caryed by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The riche man also dyed, and was buryed. 23 And beyng in hell in tormentes, he lyft vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre of, and Lazarus in his bosome,
  • John 13:23 : 23 There was one of Iesus disciples, leanyng on Iesus bosome, euen he whom Iesus loued.
  • John 3:16-18 : 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe. 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through hym myght be saued. He that beleueth on hym, is not condempned: 18 But he that beleueth not, is condempned alredy, because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotte sonne of God.
  • John 17:6 : 6 I haue declared thy name vnto ye men, which thou gauest me out of ye world. Thyne they were, and thou gauest the me, and they haue kepte thy worde.
  • Lam 2:12 : 12 Euen when they spake to their mothers, Where is meate and drinke? for whyle they so sayde, they fell downe in the streetes of the citie, like as they had ben wounded, and some dyed in their mothers bosome.
  • Gen 18:33 : 33 And the Lorde went his way assoone as he had left communyng with Abraham, and Abraham also turned vnto his place.
  • Judg 6:12-26 : 12 And the angel of the Lorde appeared vnto him, and said vnto him: The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man. 13 And Gedeon aunswered him: Oh my Lord, if the Lorde be with vs, why is all this come vpon vs? Yea, & where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd: Dyd not the Lord bryng vs out of Egypt? But nowe the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the handes of the Madianites. 14 And the Lord loked vpon him, and sayde: Go hence in this thy might, and thou shalt deliuer Israel out of the handes of the Madianites: Haue not I sent thee? 15 And he aunswered him: Oh Lorde, wherwith shall I saue Israel? Behold my kinred is poore in Manasses, and I am litle in my fathers house. 16 The Lord sayd vnto him: I will be with thee, & thou shalt smyte the Madianites, as they were but one man. 17 And he aunswered him: Oh, yf I haue founde grace in thy syght, than shew me a a signe, that it is thou that talkest with me: 18 Departe not hence I pray thee vntyll I come vnto thee, & tyll I bryng myne offring, and haue set it before thee. And he sayd: I will tary vntyll thou come againe. 19 And Gedeon went in, and made redy a kyd, and sweete cakes of an Epha of floure, and put it with the fleshe in a basket, and put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the Oke, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God sayd vnto him: Take the flesh and the sweete cakes, & lay them vpon this rocke, and powre out the broth. And he dyd so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord put foorth the end of the staffe that he helde in his hande, and touched the fleshe and the sweete cakes, and there arose vp fire out of the rocke, and consumed the flesh and the sweete cakes: But the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gedeon perceaued that it was an angel of the Lorde, he sayde: Alas, O Lorde God, haue I therfore seene an angel of the Lorde face to face, that I should dye? 23 And the Lorde sayd vnto him: Peace be vnto thee, feare not, thou shalt not dye. 24 Then Gedeon made an aulter there vnto the Lord, and called it, The Lord of peace. And vnto this day it is yet in Ephrath, that parteyneth vnto the father of the Esrites. 25 And the same nyght the Lorde sayde vnto him: Take thy fathers young bullocke, & an other bullocke of 7 yeres olde, and destroy the aulter of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it: 26 And make an aulter vnto the Lord thy God vpon the top of this rocke in a conuenient place, and take the second bullocke, and offer burnt sacrifice vpo the wood of the groue which thou shalt cut downe.
  • Judg 13:20-23 : 20 And whe the flambe came vp toward heauen from the aulter, the angell of the Lorde ascended vp in the flambe of the aulter: And Manoah and his wyfe loked vpon it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde. 21 (But the angel of the Lord did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wyfe:) And then Manoah knewe that it was an angel of the Lorde, 22 And sayd vnto his wyfe: We shal surely dye, because we haue seene God. 23 But his wyfe sayde vnto him: Yf the Lord would kyll vs, he would not haue receaued a burnt offering and a meate offering of our handes, neither woulde he haue shewed vs al these thinges, nor woulde nowe haue tolde vs any suche.
  • Prov 8:30 : 30 I was with him ordring all thinges, deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym.

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  • 46 Not that any man hath seene the father, saue he which is of God, the same hath seene the father.

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    13 Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the wyll of the fleshe, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God.

    14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.

    15 Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.

    16 And of his fulnesse haue all we receaued, and grace for grace.

    17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.

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    1 That whiche was fro the beginning, whiche we haue heard, which we haue seene with our eyes, whiche we haue loked vpo, & our handes haue handeled of, the worde of lyfe:

    2 (And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.)

    3 That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.

  • 12 No man hath seene God at any time. If we loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfect in vs.

  • 37 And the father hymselfe which hath sent me, hath borne witnesse of me. Ye haue not hearde his voyce at any tyme, nor seene his shape,

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    33 And knewe hym not. But he that sent me to baptize with water, the same saide vnto me: vpon whom thou shalt see the spirite descende, and tary styll on hym, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost.

    34 And I sawe, and bare recorde, that he is the sonne of God.

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    1 In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.

    2 The same was in the begynnyng with God.

    3 All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.

    4 In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,

    5 And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not.

    6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn:

    7 The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the lyght, that all men through hym myght beleue.

    8 He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght.

    9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.

    10 He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not.

  • 13 And no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that came downe from heauen, euen the sonne of man which is in heauen.

  • 9 In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde, because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde, that we myght lyue through hym.

  • 27 All thinges are geuen vnto me of my father: And no man knoweth the sonne but the father, neither knoweth any man the father saue the sonne, and he to whomsoeuer the sonne wyll open him.

  • 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of all creatures.

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    29 The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde.

    30 This is he of whom I sayde, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me, for he was before me.

    31 And I knewe hym not: but that he shoulde be declared to Israel, therfore am I come, baptizing with water.

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    1 God which in time past, at sundrie tymes, and in diuers maners, spake vnto the fathers in the prophetes:

    2 Hath in these last dayes, spoken vnto vs in the sonne, whom he hath appoynted heyre of all thynges, by whom also he made the worldes.

  • 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym: Haue I ben so long tyme with you, & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath seene me, hath seene the father. And howe sayest thou then, shewe vs the father?

  • 45 And he that seeth me, seeth hym that sent me.

  • 32 And what he hath seene and hearde, that he testifieth: and no man receaueth his testimonie.

  • 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe.

  • 17 Euen then veryly when he receaued of God the father honour and glorie, & when there came suche a voyce to hym from the excellent glorie: This is my deare beloued sonne in whom I delyte.

  • 5 And this is the tydynges whiche we haue hearde of hym & declare vnto you, that God is lyght, & in hym is no darkenesse at all.

  • 18 But he that beleueth not, is condempned alredy, because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotte sonne of God.

  • 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, that we shoulde be called the sonnes of god: For this cause the worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not hym.

  • 22 All thynges are geuen me of my father. No man knoweth who the sonne is, but the father, and who the father is, but the sonne, and he to whom the sonne wyll shewe hym.

  • 34 For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the wordes of God: For God geueth not the spirite by measure vnto hym.

  • 15 Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God, in him dwelleth God, and he in God.

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    6 Iesus sayth vnto hym: I am the way, and the trueth, and the lyfe. No man cometh vnto the father, but by me.

    7 If ye had knowen me, ye had knowen my father also. And nowe ye knowe hym, and haue seene hym.

  • 5 For vnto which of the Angels sayde he at any tyme: Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee?

  • 23 Because that all men shoulde honour the sonne, euen as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth not ye father which hath sent hym.

  • 3 This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent.

  • 19 Then aunswered Iesus, & sayde vnto them: Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, the sonne can do nothyng of hym selfe, but that he seeth ye father do: For whatsoeuer he doeth, that doeth the sonne also.

  • 19 And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem, to aske hym: What art thou?