John 5:43
Good News Translation
I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

New Revised Standard Version
I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Contemporary English Version
I have come with my Father's authority, and you have not welcomed me. But you will welcome people who come on their own.

New American Bible
I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

come.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

John 6:38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 8:28,29 Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak. . . .

John 10:25 Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

John 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

John 17:4-6 I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. . . .

Ezekiel 23:21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.

Hebrews 5:4,5 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was. . . .

if.

Matthew 24:5,24 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many. . . .

Acts 5:36,37 For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and brought to nothing. . . .

Acts 21:38 Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a tumult and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were murderers?

Context
The Witness of Scripture
42But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. 44How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?…
Cross References
Matthew 24:5
For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many.

John 5:42
But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.

John 5:42
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