James 4:10

Tell God that you are sorry. Tell him that you know that you are weak, and that you are not important. If you do that, he will tell you that you are important, and he will make you strong.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Stop laughing about the bad things you did. Cry about them instead. You went wrong, so be sad, not happy.

11My Christian friends, don’t say bad things about each other or rubbish each other. If you rubbish other people, it is like you reckon you are their judge. But God’s law says that you have to love other people, so if you rubbish them, you are really saying that you think God’s law is wrong. But you are not a judge, so you can’t say that God’s law is wrong. Your job is to do whatever God’s law says.

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Cross References

Luke 14:11You see, if you try to make yourself important, God will make you like nothing. But if you make yourself like nothing, God will make you important.”

James 4:6And remember that God is really good to us. His book says this too, “God is against people that think they are great, but he is good to people that know they are not great.”

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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