27 Bible Verses about Seeking Honour

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

still thou art exalting thyself against My people -- so as not to send them away;

and they are assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and say unto them, 'Enough of you! for all the company -- all of them are holy, and in their midst is Jehovah; and wherefore do ye lift yourselves up above the assembly of Jehovah?'

how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

'He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

'And the king hath done according to his will, and exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that which is determined hath been done.

who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- the day doth not come.

And they say, 'Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

Her uncleanness is in her skirts, She hath not remembered her latter end, And she cometh down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, For exerted himself hath an enemy.

Better is the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

in his shewing the wealth of the honour of his kingdom, and the glory of the beauty of his greatness, many days -- eighty and a hundred days.

and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,

'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

'Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, 'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him, and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.read more.
'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.

wherefore not even myself thought I worthy to come unto thee, but say in a word, and my lad shall be healed;

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you -- they have their reward!

nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.