James 4:7
So submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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In The King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 15:26But if he says, 'I am not pleased with you,' look, here am I, let him do to me whatever seems good to him.”
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were; instead, give yourselves to Yahweh and come into his holy place, which he has consecrated forever, and worship Yahweh your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Job 1:21He said, “I was naked when I came out of my mother's womb, and I will be naked when I will return there. It is Yahweh who gave, and it is Yahweh who has taken away. May the name of Yahweh be blessed.”
Job 42:1Then Job answered Yahweh and said, 1
Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How terrifying are your deeds! 1 By the greatness of your power your enemies will submit to you. 1
Jeremiah 13:18“Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones, 1 for your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.' 1
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 →