James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

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Cross References

Job 22:29When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

Psalms 28:9Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Psalms 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

Matthew 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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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