John 5:44

How can you believe when you receive glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?

Text-Critical English NT

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 the name of my Father, and yet you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:5They do all their works to be seen by others. They make their phylacteries wide and the fringes of their garments long.

Luke 19:17The king said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because yoʋ have been faithful in a very small matter, take authority over ten cities.’

John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to accept my word.

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

Romans 2:10but there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also 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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