John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
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2 Chronicles 6:8But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:
Matthew 23:5But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
Luke 19:17And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.
John 8:43Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
John 17:3And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Romans 2:10But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then 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 →