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John 5:44

Radiate New Testament

You accept praise from one another, but you don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe?

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They loved praise from people more than praise from God.

No, a person is really a Jew if they’re one on the inside. True circumcision is when the Holy Spirit circumcises a person’s heart. It’s not when a person is circumcised according to the written law. A truly circumcised person receives praise from God, not from other people.

Don’t try to get ahead of others, and don’t think you’re better than they are. Instead, be humble and honor others more than yourselves.

“Everything they do is for others to see. People sometimes wear little boxes on their foreheads and arms that hold Scripture quotes. But they make their boxes big and obvious. People put tassels on the four corners of their clothes to remind them to obey God’s commands. But they make their tassels extra long.

These have come to show that your faith is genuine. This will bring praise, honor, and glory to God when Jesus Christ returns. Your faith is worth even more than gold, because gold can be destroyed even after fire has made it pure.

So don’t judge anything before the appointed time. Wait until the Lord returns, and he will bring what’s now hidden in the dark out into the light. He’ll show the real reasons why people do what they do. At that time God will give each person the praise they deserve.

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jews, and then also for the Gentiles.

God will give eternal life to the ones who keep on doing good because they value glory, honor, and the life that never ends.

“ ‘You have done well, my good slave!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have shown that you are faithful through this very small matter, I’m going to put you in charge of ten towns.’

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ shouldn’t treat some people better than others.

Brothers and sisters, make sure that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

It’s not the ones who praise themselves who are accepted—it’s the ones the Lord praises.

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you’ve sent.

Why can’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t really hear it.

Everyone who does wrong hates the light and doesn’t come into the light, because they’re afraid that what they’re doing will get them in trouble.

“I don’t accept praise from human beings,

We weren’t expecting people to praise us. We weren’t looking for praise from anybody, not from you and not from anyone else, even though we could have demanded respect as apostles of Christ.

May the eternal King, who will never die, who can’t be seen, and who is the only God, receive honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

So may the only God, our Savior, receive glory, majesty, power, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord—before all time, now, and forever! Amen.




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