John 8:50

World English Bible (2000)

But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 5:41 : 41 I don't receive glory from men.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
  • John 5:45 : 45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
  • John 7:18 : 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • John 5:20-23 : 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

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  • John 7:18-19
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    82%

    18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

    19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

  • John 8:54-55
    2 verses
    80%

    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

    55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 5:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

    31"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

  • John 5:41
    78%

    41I don't receive glory from men.

  • John 8:13-16
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    77%

    13The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

    15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

    16Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • John 5:43-44
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    77%

    43I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

    44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

  • John 8:26
    73%

    26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

  • John 8:28-29
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    73%

    28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

    29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

  • John 12:28
    72%

    28Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

  • John 8:18-19
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    72%

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

    19They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • John 7:16
    72%

    16Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

  • John 7:24
    71%

    24Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • John 6:38
    71%

    38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  • John 5:22-23
    2 verses
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    22For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

    23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

  • John 12:47-49
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    70%

    47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

    48He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

    49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

  • John 12:45
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    45He who sees me sees him who sent me.

  • John 13:32
    70%

    32If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

  • John 5:36
    70%

    36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

  • John 8:38
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    38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

  • John 8:46
    70%

    46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • John 17:4-5
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    70%

    4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

    5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

  • John 17:1
    70%

    1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

  • John 12:30
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    30Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.

  • John 7:28
    69%

    28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

  • John 7:4
    69%

    4For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

  • John 8:23
    69%

    23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

  • John 17:10
    69%

    10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

  • John 5:39
    69%

    39"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

  • John 12:43
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    43for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.

  • John 10:30
    68%

    30I and the Father are one."

  • John 8:40
    68%

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

  • John 5:19
    68%

    19Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

  • John 16:10
    68%

    10about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;