John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
Cross References
Numbers 11:29And Moses said to him, Are thou jealous for my sake? Would that all of LORD's people were prophets, that LORD would put his Spirit upon them!
Matthew 6:9Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name.
John 5:41I do not receive glory from men.
John 8:54Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.
John 12:28Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came out of heaven, saying, I both glorified it, and I will glorify again.
John 17:4I glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work which thou have given me that I should do.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →