1 Thessalonians 2:6

A Conservative Version

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ,

Cross References

Galatians 1:10

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, who receive glory from each other, and seek not the glory from the only God?

John 5:41

I do not receive glory from men.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.

2 Corinthians 13:10

Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

1 Corinthians 11:9

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

John 12:43

for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

John 7:18

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

Esther 1:4

when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and eighty days.

Galatians 6:13

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.