John 5:44

How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

In Context

43I have come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not; if another should come in his own name, him you would receive.

45Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:5And they do all their works for the purpose of being seen by men. They make their amulets broad, and enlarge the fringes of their mantles.

Luke 19:17And he said to him: Well done, good servant; because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.

John 8:43Why do you not know what I say? Because you can not understand my words.

John 17:3And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.

Romans 2:10but glory and honor and peace to every one that practices what is good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

Matthew Henry on John 5:32-47

Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that… Read the whole commentary →

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