7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: …
Neither give place to the devil.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. …
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I. The apostle here reproves the Jewish Christians for their wars, and for their lusts as the cause of them: Whence co…
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