Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὑποτάσσω 
Hupotasso 
Usage: 39

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

to God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ἀνθίστημι 
Anthistemi 
Usage: 12

the devil
διάβολος 
Diabolos 
Usage: 32

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

he will flee
φεύγω 
Pheugo 
Usage: 23

ἀπό 
Apo 
from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .
Usage: 490

Devotionals

Devotionals about James 4:7

Images James 4:7

Context Readings

Subject Yourselves To God

6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' 7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; 8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

Cross References

Ephesians 4:27

neither give place to the devil;

1 Peter 5:8-9

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Ephesians 6:11-12

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

1 Samuel 3:18

And Samuel declareth to him the whole of the words, and hath not hid from him; and he saith, 'It is Jehovah; that which is good in His eyes He doth.'

2 Samuel 15:26

and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here am I, He doth to me as is good in His eyes.'

2 Kings 1:13-15

And he turneth and sendeth a third head of fifty and his fifty, and the third head of fifty goeth up, and cometh in, and boweth on his knees over-against Elijah, and maketh supplication unto him, and speaketh unto him, 'O man of God, let be precious, I pray thee, my soul and the soul of thy servants -- these fifty -- in thine eyes.

2 Chronicles 30:8

'Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

Job 1:21

and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Job 40:3-5

And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

Job 42:1-6

And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

Psalm 32:3-5

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

Psalm 66:3

Say to God, 'How fearful are Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.

Psalm 68:30

Rebuke a beast of the reeds, a company of bulls, With calves of the peoples, Each humbling himself with pieces of silver, Scatter Thou peoples delighting in conflicts.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

Daniel 4:25

and they are driving thee away from men, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, and the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and by the dew of the heavens they are wetting thee, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it.

Daniel 4:32

and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it.

Daniel 4:34-37

And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation;

Matthew 4:3-11

And the Tempter having come to him said, 'If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'

Matthew 11:29

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

Luke 4:2-13

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

Acts 9:6

trembling also, and astonished, he said, 'Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord said unto him, 'Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

Acts 16:29-31

And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

Acts 26:19

'Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Romans 10:3

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

Romans 14:11

for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Hebrews 12:9

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

1 Peter 2:13

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

1 Peter 5:6

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

Revelation 12:9-11

and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

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