John 5:44

How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not?

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes;

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

John 8:43Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye can not hear my word.

John 17:3And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send.

Romans 2:10but glory, and honor, and peace, to every man that works 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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