20 Bible Verses About Him: What God Is Like and What Jesus Did

  • The list of God’s attributes proclaimed to Moses in Exodus 34:6 recurs in Psalm 103:8, Joel 2:13 and Jonah 4:2.
  • In John 14:9 Jesus tells Philip, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”
  • The New Testament applies Isaiah 53 to Jesus, in Philip’s explanation to the eunuch (Acts 8:35) and in 1 Peter 2:24.
  • In the NIV, John 3:16 falls outside the quotation marks around Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, which close after verse 15.
  • Matthew’s Gospel ends with Jesus’ promise, “I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

The Bible describes God as “compassionate and gracious” in his own words to Moses. The New Testament adds that Jesus shows what God is like: “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). The Bible’s main statements about him include God’s description of his name (Exodus 34:6), John’s statement that “God is love” (1 John 4:8), Isaiah’s servant “pierced for our transgressions” (Isaiah 53:5), and the promise “I am with you always” (Matthew 28:20). What God is…

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