44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
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For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-47)In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I. He sets aside his own testimony of himself (John 5:31): “ If I bear witness of myself , though it is infallibly true (John 8:14), yet, according to the common rule of judgment among men, you will not admit it as legal proof , nor allow it to be given in…
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