John 7:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ λαλῶν τὴν δόξαν τὴν ἰδίαν ζητεῖ: ὁ δὲ ζητῶν τὴν δόξαν τοῦ πέμψαντος αὐτόν, οὗτος ἀληθής ἐστιν, καὶ ἀδικία ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν.

Transliteration

The aph' heautou lalōn the doxan the idian zētei: the de zētōn the doxan of the pempsantos him, this one alēthēs estin, and adikia in him not estin.

Grammar Details

• *aph'*: preposition + genitive - from
• *heautou*: genitive, masculine, singular - himself
• *lalōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - speaking
• *doxan*: accusative, feminine, singular - glory/honor
• *idian*: accusative, feminine, singular - own
• *zētei*: present indicative, 3rd singular - seeks
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *zētōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - seeking
• *pempsantos*: aorist participle, genitive, masculine, singular - of the one having sent
• *alēthēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - true
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *adikia*: nominative, feminine, singular - unrighteousness

Word Meanings

• *lalōn*: speaking/talking
• *doxan*: glory/honor/praise
• *idian*: own/personal/private
• *zētei*: seeks/desires/aims at
• *zētōn*: seeking/looking for/aiming at
• *pempsantos*: having sent/commissioned
• *alēthēs*: true/genuine/truthful
• *adikia*: unrighteousness/injustice/wrongdoing

Referenced Verses

• John 5:41 : 41 “I do not accept praise from people,
• 1 Cor 10:31-33 : 31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. 32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek 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 showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh. 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Phil 2:3-5 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. 5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
• 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• John 8:49-50 : 49 Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me. 50 I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.
• John 8:54 : 54 Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’
• John 11:4 : 4 When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, 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 The Prediction of Peter’s Denial When Judas had gone out, 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 he will glorify him right away.
• John 17:4-5 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
• Exod 32:10-13 : 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.” 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
• Num 11:29 : 29 Moses said to him,“Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, 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 for people to seek their own glory.
• Matt 6:9 : 9 So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,
• John 3:26-30 : 26 So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking 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 rather,‘I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. 30 He must become more important while I become less important.”