John 5:41
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
I receive not honour from men.
42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I do not accept glory from men,
- KJV
- I receive not honour from men.
- WEB
- I don’t receive glory from men.
- ASV
- I receive not glory from men.
- DARBY
- I do not receive glory from men,
- BLB
- I do not receive glory from men,
- ÅB
- Jeg tar ikke ære av mennesker;
- OTB
- Jeg søker ikke ære fra mennesker,
- B1930
- Jeg tar ikke ære av mennesker;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 7:18
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Read in contextJohn 8:50
And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Read in contextJohn 5:44
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Read in contextJohn 5:34
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
Read in contextJohn 8:54
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
Read in context1 Peter 2:21
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Read in contextJohn 6:15
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
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