James 4:6
But He gives greater grace; therefore He says: “God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?
7Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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 →