James 4:10

Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you. 1 Do Not Judge a Brother

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.

11Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Read all of James 4

Cross References

Matthew 23:12And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

James 4:6But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: 1 “ God resists the proud, 1 but gives grace to the humble.” 1 Humility Cures Worldliness

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study James 4:10