James 4:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

James 4:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God - That is, in his arrangements for obtaining his favor. Yield to what he has judged necessary for your welfare in the life that is, and your salvation in the li...
James 4:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(5) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (5) The conclusion: We must set the positive virtues against those vices, and therefore whereas we obeyed the sug...
James 4:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 4:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7 Submit yourselves. The submission which he recommends is that of humility; for he does not exhort us generally to obey God, but requires submission; for the Spirit of God rests on the humbl...
James 4:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Submit - to God - Continue to bow to all his decisions, and to all his dispensations. Resist the devil - He cannot co...
James 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Submit yourselves— "Subject yourselves therefore to God, and, being listed in his army, keep the rank which he hath assigned you." Thus much is implied by the word υποταγητε.
James 4:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Submit yourselves therefore to God - so ye shall be among "the humble" ( James 4:6 ; also James 4:10 ; 1 Pet...
James 4:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Denunciation of Greed and Love of Pleasure 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'
James 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. ( But ) resist the devil. — The hardest advice of all, to a man reliant on himself, is submission to any, more especially to the Unknown. But, as a correlative...
James 4:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
James 4:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
James 4:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
James 4:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
James 4:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE COMBAT WITH EVIL ‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ James 4:7 Temptation is the root of sin: if you want to fight against sin you must look to the root of it, and you must re...
James 4:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God ,.... To the will of God, with respect to worldly things, and be content with such things as are enjoyed, and be satisfied with the portion that is allotted...
James 4:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Ver. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God ] Gr. υποταγητε, set yourselves under him, not above him; as the proud...
James 4:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
James 4:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 4:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. A. D. 61. 1 From whence come...
James 4:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God; viz. voluntarily and freely, and that not only in a way of obedience to all his commands, but (which is chiefly meant here) in a way of humility, and sense of yo...
James 4:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 4:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 4:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 4:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
James 4:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
James 4:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
James 4:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:
James 4:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:13 ; 1 Peter 5:8 ; 1 Peter 5:9 ; 1 Samuel 3:18 ; 2 Chronicles 30:8 ; 2 Chronicles 33:12 ; 2 Chronicles 33:13 ; 2 Kings 1:13-15 ; 2 Samuel 15:26 ; Acts 16:29-31 ; Acts 26:19 ; Ac...
James 4:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore by humbly submitting yourselves to God, resist the devil — The father of pride and envy.

James 4:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 4:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

James 4:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 4:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 4:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 4:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 4:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 4:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 4:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 4:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James 4:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 4:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 4:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 4:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 4:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 4:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

James 4:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

James 4:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 4:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 4:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes