John 8:50
Good News Translation
I am not seeking honor for myself. But there is one who is seeking it and who judges in my favor.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and he is the judge.

Contemporary English Version
I don't want honor for myself. But there is one who wants me to be honored, and he is also the one who judges.

New American Bible
I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and he is the one who judges.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

I seek not.

John 5:41 I receive not glory from men.

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him.

there.

John 5:20-23,45 For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder. . . .

John 12:47,48 And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. . . .

Context
Before Abraham was Born, I Am
49Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And you have dishonoured me. 50But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. 51Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.…
Cross References
John 5:41
I receive not glory from men.

John 7:18
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him.

John 8:54
Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.

John 8:49
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