John 5:44

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

Montgomery New Testament

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

43"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

45"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:5"For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,

Luke 19:17"And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’

John 8:43"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

John 17:3"And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

Romans 2:10but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

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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