James 4:7
For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:26But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
Job 1:21With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Job 42:1And Job said in answer to the Lord,
Psalms 66:3Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.
Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →