John 5:41
New International Version
“I do not accept glory from human beings,

New Living Translation
“Your approval means nothing to me,

English Standard Version
I do not receive glory from people.

Berean Standard Bible
I do not accept glory from men,

Berean Literal Bible
I do not take glory from men,

King James Bible
I receive not honour from men.

New King James Version
“I do not receive honor from men.

New American Standard Bible
I do not receive glory from people;

NASB 1995
“I do not receive glory from men;

NASB 1977
“I do not receive glory from men;

Legacy Standard Bible
I do not receive glory from men;

Amplified Bible
I do not receive glory and approval from men;

Christian Standard Bible
“I do not accept glory from people,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I do not accept glory from men,

American Standard Version
I receive not glory from men.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I do not receive glory from the children of men.

Contemporary English Version
I don't care about human praise,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I receive glory not from men.

English Revised Version
I receive not glory from men.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I don't accept praise from humans.

Good News Translation
"I am not looking for human praise.

International Standard Version
"I do not accept human praise.

Literal Standard Version
I do not receive glory from man,

Majority Standard Bible
I do not accept glory from men,

New American Bible
“I do not accept human praise;

NET Bible
"I do not accept praise from people,

New Revised Standard Version
I do not accept glory from human beings.

New Heart English Bible
I do not receive glory from people.

Webster's Bible Translation
I receive not honor from men.

Weymouth New Testament
"I do not accept glory from man,

World English Bible
I don’t receive glory from men.

Young's Literal Translation
glory from man I do not receive,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Witness of Scripture
40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life. 41 I do not accept glory from men, 42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.…

Cross References
John 5:40
yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

John 5:42
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

John 5:44
How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:18
He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

John 8:50
I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

John 12:43
For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.


Treasury of Scripture

I receive not honor from men.

John 5:34
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

John 6:15
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

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.

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John 5
1. Jesus on the Sabbath day cures him who was diseased thirty-eight years.
10. The Jews therefore object, and persecute him for it.
17. He answers for himself, and reproves them, showing by the testimony of his Father,
31. of John,
36. of his works,
39. and of the Scriptures, who he is.














(41) I receive not honour.--The word is better rendered glory here, and in John 5:44. Jesus continues to dwell, in the remainder of the discourse (John 5:41-47), on the true cause of their incredulity. "Ye will not come to Me," is the central thought. But were they, then, to follow this young Teacher, while they themselves had schools and disciples who held their teaching sacred, and their persons in honour, and addressed them as "Rabbi?" No! this is not the true coming to Him. They seek glory from men. He does not receive it (John 5:34).

Verses 41-47. -

(d) The effect of the revelation of the Son upon the Jews. Verses 41, 42. - This appeal to the will of man was apparently entirely misunderstood, and ended for the time in failure. "They would not come." Everything was prepared, but none were ready or willing to accept even so rich a blessing as life itself. This is the refrain of the whole Bible: "Ye will not; .... Ye would not;" "What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?" "I called, and ye refused;" "I wrote the great things of my Law; ye have counted them as strange things." Our Lord proceeds in the closing words to account in some respects for this unwillingness. I receive not glory from men, but I know you (ἔγνωκα, I have come by experience or intuition to such knowledge of you), that you have not the love of God in you. The love of God is the principle of all obedience; and Christ elsewhere declares it to be the first and great commandment of the Law. But love is the principle of all knowledge. "He that loveth not knoweth not." This principle reaches its fullest expression when we learn the greater truth that "God is love." It is true of all objects of love, the highest kind of knowledge is not possible without love. This is pre-eminently the case when we think of knowing God. Since God is essential Love, without experiencing love we cannot realize that Divine essence. Again, there is an elementary faith that precedes elementary love, but when love is once awakened, faith again deepens, and love grows by what it feeds upon, until the faith becomes vision and the love rapture. But why the opening words, I receive not glory from men? Probably they intimate opposition and questioning to some such effect as this: "Thou hast declared thyself the Giver of life and resurrection, and charged our lack of spiritual life upon our unwillingness to believe these claims and to submit ourselves to these exalted assumptions or to go to thee for life. Thou art eager, after all, for our approval and glory." To this Christ replied, "Glory from men I receive not. It is not for my sake, but for yours, I say, 'Come unto me and live;' but, alas! having searched you through and through, I discern no love, none of the spirit out of which the forces of faith can be evolved. The reason why you are unwilling to come to me for life is that you are measuring me by yourselves, and have not that self-emptying and abnegation and distrust out of which faith and love, love and faith, must ever spring."

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Greek
I do not accept
λαμβάνω (lambanō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

glory
Δόξαν (Doxan)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1391: From the base of dokeo; glory, in a wide application.

from
παρὰ (para)
Preposition
Strong's 3844: Gen: from; dat: beside, in the presence of; acc: alongside of.

men,
ἀνθρώπων (anthrōpōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.


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