John 5:44

How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Berean Standard Bible

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 have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:8But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

Matthew 23:5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Luke 19:17His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 2:10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for 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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