John 7:17

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

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In The King James Version

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

In Context

16Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who sent me.

18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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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 →

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