James 4:10

be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;

11Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge.

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Cross References

Job 22:29For they have made low, || And you say, Lift up. And He saves the bowed down of eyes.

Psalms 28:9Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance, || And feed them, and carry them for all time!

Psalms 113:7He is raising up the poor from the dust, || He exalts the needy from a dunghill.

Matthew 23:12and whoever will exalt himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and he who is humbling himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”

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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