John 8:50

WEB

⁵⁰But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

KJV

⁵⁰ And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

BSB

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

FBV

⁵⁰I'm not here looking to glorify myself. But there is one who does this for me and who judges in my favor.

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Extra References

John 8:54

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.

John 7:18

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.

²⁰For 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. ²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 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 12:47-48

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 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.