James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
2 Chronicles 32:26However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the LORD’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.
Job 40:10“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honour and majesty.
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 →