Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Holman Bible
Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
International Standard Version
Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.
A Conservative Version
Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.
American Standard Version
Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Amplified
So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.
An Understandable Version
So, you should submit yourselves to God, but oppose the devil, and he will flee from you.
Anderson New Testament
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you;
Bible in Basic English
For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
Common New Testament
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Darby Translation
Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:
Goodspeed New Testament
Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.
John Wesley New Testament
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
King James 2000
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Moffatt New Testament
Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:
Montgomery New Testament
So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.
NET Bible
So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.
New Heart English Bible
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Noyes New Testament
Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Sawyer New Testament
Be subject therefore to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you;
The Emphasized Bible
Range yourselves, therefore, under God, but withstand the adversary, and he will flee from you:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore submit to God; but resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Webster
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Weymouth New Testament
Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Williams New Testament
So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.
World English Bible
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Worrell New Testament
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Worsley New Testament
Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Youngs Literal Translation
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;
Themes
Adversary » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
Consolation under Affliction » To the tempted
Devil/devils » Resisting the devil
Devil/devils » Who the devil flees from
God » Promises to the tempted » Final victory
God's Promises » To the tempted » Final victory
Limitations of satan » Knows when he is defeated
Resistance » The reward for resisting the devil
Satan » Tempts men vanquished by men » Resistance to
Satan » Indwelling limited in power » Knows when he is defeated
Serpent » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
Submission » To the divine will
Submission » Submitting yourself to the lord
promises to Tempted » Final victory
Tempter » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
The Devil » Saints » Should resist
The Devil » Character of » Cowardly
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
6 And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 7 Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 4:27
Neither give place to the accuser.
1 Peter 5:8-9
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.
1 Samuel 3:18
And Samuel will announce to him all the words, and he hid not from him. And he will say, It is Jehovah: the good in his eyes he will do.
2 Samuel 15:26
And if he say thus, I delighted not in thee; behold me, he will do to me as is good in his eyes.
2 Kings 1:13-15
And he will turn back and send a captain of the third fifty and his fifty. And the captain of the third fifty will go up and come and bend upon his knees before Elijah, and make supplication to him, and speak to him, O man of God, shall my soul now be precious, and the soul of these fifty, thy servants, in thine eyes?
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now ye shall not harden your neck as your fathers; ye shall give the hand to Jehovah, and come ye into his holy place which he consecrated forever: and serve ye Jehovah your God, and he will turn back from you the burning of his anger.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.
Job 1:21
And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.
Job 40:3-5
And Job will answer Jehovah, and say,
Job 42:1-6
And Job will answer Jehovah, and he will say,
Psalm 32:3-5
If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.
Psalm 66:3
Say to God, How terrible thy works! in the multitude of thy strength thine enemies shall lie to thee.
Psalm 68:30
Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the assembly of the strong ones, with the heifers of the peoples, prostrating themselves with pieces of salver: scatter the peoples, they will delight in wars.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the mistress, Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory was brought down from your heads.
Daniel 4:25
And for thee driving from men, and with the beasts of the open field to be thy dwelling, and they shall feed to thee grass as oxen, and wetting to thee from the dew of the heavens, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it
Daniel 4:32
And from men driving thee out, and with beasts of the open field thy dwelling: and they shall feed to thee the grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will give it
Daniel 4:34-37
And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes to the heavens, and my knowledge will turn back to me, and I praised to the Most High, and to him living forever, I praised and honored, whose dominion an eternal dominion, and his kingdom with generation and generation.
Matthew 4:3-11
And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread.
Matthew 11:29
Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.
Luke 4:2-13
Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.
Acts 9:6
And he trembling and amazed said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do? And the Lord to him, Arise, and come into the city, and it shall be spoken to thee what thou must do.
Acts 16:29-31
And having asked for a light, he rushed in, and being trembling, fell before Paul and Silas,
Acts 26:19
Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:
Romans 10:3
For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
Romans 14:11
For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God.
Ephesians 5:21
Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God.
Hebrews 12:9
Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
1 Peter 2:13
Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;
1 Peter 5:6
Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:
Revelation 12:9-11
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.