15 Bible Verses about Seeking Honour

How can you believe, receiving glory one from another, and the glory from God alone you seek not?

He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this [man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

and love the first tables at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues,

and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts;

Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts;

Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the first seat in the synagogues, and salutations in the markets.

And he spoke a parable to the invited, when he observed how they selected the first places at the table; saying to them, When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest at some time a more honorable man than you should have been invited by him, and he that invited you and him come and say to you, Give this man a place; and then with shame you take the last place.read more.
But when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher; then you shall have honor in the presence of those that recline with you;

to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

for we provide things honorable not only before the Lord, but also before men.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

And no one takes the honor on himself but he that is called by God, even as Aaron also was.

Wherefore I did not think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant shall be cured;

When, therefore, you give in charity, sound not a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.

neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;