John 5:41
I receive not honour from men.
KJV
δόξαν παρὰ ἀνθρώπων οὐ λαμβάνω,
Greek NT
Claritatem ab hominibus non accipio.
Vulgate
I receive not glory from men.
ASV
I receive not glory from men.
Douay-Rheims
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Greek
5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on the Gospel of John · 2 passages
1. Beloved, let us not contend with violent men, but learn when the doing so brings no hurt to our virtue to give place to their evil counsels; for so all their hardihood is checked. As darts when they fall upon a firm, hard, and resisting substance, rebound with great violence on those who throw them, but when the violence of the cast has nothing to oppose it, it soon becomes …
1. There is nothing worse, nothing more shameful, than gluttony; it makes the mind gross, and the soul carnal; it blinds, and permits not to see clearly. Observe, for instance, how this is the case with the Jews; for because they were intent upon gluttony, entirely occupied with worldly things, and without any spiritual thoughts, though Christ leads them on by ten thousand sayi…
Cross-references
- 1Thess 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.
- 1Thess 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.
- John 5:34 — But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
- John 5:34 — But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
- 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 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 8:50 — And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
- John 8:50 — And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
- John 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:
- John 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:
- John 12:43 — For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
- Mark 5:43 — And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
- Mark 10:18 — And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
- Matt 6:2 — Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have t