James 4:7

Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

In Context

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

8draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:26and if thus He says, I have not delighted in you; here I [am], He does to me as [is] good in His eyes.”

2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not harden your neck like your fathers, give a hand to YHWH, and come into His sanctuary that He has sanctified for all time, and serve your God YHWH, and the fierceness of His anger turns back from you;

Job 1:21and he says, “I came forth naked from the womb of my mother, || And naked I return there. YHWH has given and YHWH has taken; Let the Name of YHWH be blessed.”

Job 42:1And Job answers YHWH and says:

Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How fearful Your works—By the abundance of Your strength, || Your enemies feign obedience to You.

Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low—sit still, || For your principalities have come down, || The crown of your beauty.

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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