James 4:7
Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 will say to me, ‘You are not pleasing,’ I am ready. Let him do whatever is good in his own sight.”
2 Chronicles 30:8Do not choose to harden your necks, as your fathers did. Surrender to the hands of the Lord. And go to his Sanctuary, which he has sanctified unto eternity. Serve the Lord, the God of your fathers, and the fury of his wrath will be turned away from you.
Job 1:21and he said, “Naked I departed from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job 42:1Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
Psalms 66:3So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations.
Jeremiah 13:18“Say to the king and to the female ruler: Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory has gone down from your head.
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 →