John 5:44
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The penetrating question 'how can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?' identifies social honor as the structural obstacle to faith — a diagnosis that cuts at the patronage networks and peer-approval systems that governed both Jewish and Greco-Roman social worlds. The verse applies to the Jewish leadership who rejected Jesus, but its anthropological insight extends universally: faith requires a reorientation of the entire honor-economy away from human recognition and toward divine approval. John 12:42-43 narrates the specific failure of rulers who 'believed but did not confess him, for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God' — a concrete illustration of this principle. The verse has been cited in critiques of academic theology, institutional religion, and any form of Christianity structured primarily around social acceptability.
अन्य अनुवाद
How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?
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How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
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