James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:21and said, Naked came I forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
Job 42:1Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:
Psalms 66:3Say unto God, How terrible are thy doings! Through the greatness of thy power thine enemies are suppliants to thee!
Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen, Sit ye down upon the ground, For your beautiful crown shall fall from your heads.
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 →