“I do not accept praise from people,

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”

Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one –

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.