“ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. ”
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord - Compare Matthew 23:12 . See the notes at James 4:6 . That is, be willing to take your appropriate place in the dust on account of your transgression...
The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
Humble yourselves . Greek. tapeinoo. See 2 Corinthians 11:7 . LORD . App-98. A (B according to texts). lift... up . Greek. hupsoo. See John 12:32 .
10 Humble yourselves, or, be ye humbled. The conclusion of what is gone before is, that the grace of God then be ready to raise us up when he sees that our proud spirits are laid aside. We...
DISCOURSE: 2371 REPENTANCE URGED [Note: For Ash-Wednesday.] James 4:8-10 . Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minde...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord - In James 4:7 they were exhorted to submit to God; here they are exhorted to humble...
Humble yourselves, &c.— "In this manner lay yourselves at the foot of God with the lowest prostration and self-abasement, as offenders against his sacred Majesty, and with an affecting convicti...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. In the sight of the Lord - as continually in the presence of Him who alone is to be exalted: the truest incentive to humi...
Denunciation of Greed and Love of Pleasure 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'
Humble yourselves... — Read, Humble yourselves therefore before the Lord, and He shall lift you up. “ For thus saith the high and lofty One” ( Isaiah 57:15 ), “I dwell in the high and holy place,...
Chapter 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1-13 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling...
“Draw Nigh to God” James 4:1-10 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14 , and says that these evils are traceable to lust , that is, to inordinat...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict an...
(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye dou...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord ,.... Which is done, when men, before the Lord, and from their hearts, and in the sincerity of their souls, acknowledge their meanness and unworthiness, th...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Ver. 10. Humble yourselves ] He beats often upon this most needful but much neglected duty of humiliation, and all is little...
But he God, giveth more grace To all those who, while they shun those tempers, sincerely and earnestly pray for it. Wherefore he saith , [see the margins] God, resisteth the proud The unhumble...
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within t...
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. A. D. 61. 1 From whence come...
Humble yourselves: the same duty pressed again, only with respect to the more internal part of it, the debasement of the heart, lest they should rest too much in the outward exercises before mentio...
As A Consequence They Are To Subject Themselves to God, Resist the Devil, And Draw Near to God By Purifying Themselves And Truly Repenting ( James 4:6-10 ). The condition of some of God's professe...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 4:5 .—The precise rendering is doubtful. There is no passage either in the Canonical or Apocryphal Scriptures that is here referred to. The Revised Version g...
James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1 . Come they not h...
James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had...
Submit yourselves therefore to God Submitting ourselves to God I. THE DUTY OF SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD. This submission has its commencement and abiding root in the reception of Christ as a...
EXPOSITION James 4:1-59 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED . A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1-59 . closed. James 4:1...
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:
1 Peter 5:6 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; James 4:6 ; James 4:7 ; Job 22:29 ; Luke 14:11 ; Luke 18:14 ; Matthew 23:12 ; Psalms 113:7 ; Psalms 147:6 ; Psalms 27:6 ; Psalms 28:9 ; Psalms 30:1