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John 8:50
John 8:50 is verse 50 of John chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.
King James Version
And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
World English Bible
But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
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John 8:48–52 · Berean Standard Bible
48 The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
49 “I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
50 I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.
51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
52 “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 5:41I do not accept glory from men,
John 7:18He 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 5:20The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.
John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
John 5:22Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
John 12:47As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
John 12:48There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.