James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

In Context

9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

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Cross References

Job 22:29When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Psalms 28:9Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.

Psalms 113:7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

Matthew 23:12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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 →

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