James 4:7
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:26and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here [am] I, He doth to me as [is] good in His eyes.'
2 Chronicles 30:8'Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;
Job 1:21and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'
Job 42:1And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: —
Psalms 66:3Say to God, 'How fearful [are] Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.
Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low — sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
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 →