John 7:18

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The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is truthful, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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  • John 5:41 : 41 I do not accept glory from people.
  • 1 Cor 10:31-33 : 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God. 33 Just as I also try to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
  • Gal 6:12-14 : 12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not keep the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so they can boast about your flesh. 14 But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Phil 2:3-5 : 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 We did not seek glory from people, neither from you nor from others.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
  • John 8:49-50 : 49 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.
  • John 11:4 : 4 When Jesus heard it, he said, 'This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
  • John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 When Judas had left, Jesus said, 'Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.' 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.
  • John 17:4-5 : 4 I have glorified You on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
  • Exod 32:10-13 : 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation." 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said, "LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?" 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent concerning this disaster against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself: 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and they shall inherit it forever.'
  • Num 11:29 : 29 But Moses replied, 'Are you jealous on my behalf? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit on them!'
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own glory.
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
  • John 3:26-30 : 26 So they came to John and said to him, 'Rabbi, the one who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you testified—look, He is baptizing, and everyone is coming to Him.' 27 John replied, 'No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.' 28 'You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

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    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

    50Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

  • John 5:43-44
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    43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

    44How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?

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    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.

  • John 7:16-17
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    16Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but comes from the One who sent Me.

    17'If anyone wants to do His will, they will know whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own authority.'

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    4'For no one does anything in secret while seeking to be known publicly. If You are doing these things, reveal Yourself to the world.'

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    30I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

    31If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

    32There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is true.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple, cried out, 'You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him.

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    41I do not accept glory from people.

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    19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?

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    49For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak.

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    45"And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

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    32If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.

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    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

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    18I am the one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies about me.

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    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

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  • John 12:28
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    28Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

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    24Do not judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

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