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1 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.

KJV

οὔτε ζητοῦντες ἐξ ἀνθρώπων δόξαν, οὔτε ἀφ’ ὑμῶν οὔτε ἀπ’ ἄλλων, δυνάμενοι ἐν βάρει εἶναι ὡς Χριστοῦ ἀπόστολοι·

Greek NT

nec quærentes ab hominibus gloriam, neque a vobis, neque ab aliis.

Vulgate

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

ASV

Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
βάρος
baros
noun · 6×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
οὔτε
oute
conjunction · 94×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:4 — Have we not power to eat and to drink?
  • 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1Cor 9:18 — What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
  • 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 1Tim 5:3 — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
  • 1Tim 5:17 — Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
  • 2Cor 10:1 — Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
  • 2Cor 11:9 — And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from bei
  • 2Cor 13:10 — Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  • 2Thess 3:9 — Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
  • Acts 28:10 — Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
  • Gal 1:10 — For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
  • Gal 5:26 — Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
  • John 5:41 — I receive not honour from men.
  • John 5:41 — I receive not honour from men.
  • John 5:44 — How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
  • 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.
  • John 12:43 — For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • Phlm 1:8 — Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
  • Phlm 1:8 — Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
  • Ps 131:1 — Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.