James 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:8-9
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: …
Ephesians 4:27
Neither give place to the devil.
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. …
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Luke 4:2-13
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. Submit to ... God--so ye shall be among “the humble,” Jas 4:6; also Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:6. Resist ... devil--Under his banner pride and envy are enlisted in the world; resist his temptations to these. Faith, humble prayers, and heavenly wisdom, are the weapons of resistance. The language is taken from warfare. “Submit” as a good soldier puts himself in complete subjection to his captain. “Resist,”…