James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
In Context
6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:26But if he thus say, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good unto him.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be all of you not stubborn, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Job 1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Job 42:1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
Psalms 66:3Say unto God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall yours enemies submit themselves unto you.
Jeremiah 13:18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
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 →