John 7:18
Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and injustice is not in him.
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In Context
19Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!
Cross References
Numbers 11:29But he said, “Why are you jealous on my behalf? Who decides that any of the people may prophesy and that God may give to them his Spirit?”
Matthew 6:9Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy.
John 5:41I do not accept glory from men.
John 8:54Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.
John 12:28Father, glorify your name!” And then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
John 17:4I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work that you gave me to accomplish.
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 →