“Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
— WEB
James 4:7
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“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
— KJV
“Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
— ASV
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Submit to . . . God--so ye shall be among "the humble," Jam 4:6; also Jam 4:10; Pe1 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," stand bravely against. he will flee--Translate, "he shall flee." For it is a promise of God, not a mere assurance from man to man [ALFORD]. He shall flee worsted as he did from Christ.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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