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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

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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.

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