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James 4:7

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

KJV

ὑποτάγητε οὖν τῷ θεῷ· ἀντίστητε δὲ τῷ διαβόλῳ, καὶ φεύξεται ἀφ’ ὑμῶν·

Greek NT

Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.

Vulgate

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

ASV

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διάβολος
diabolos
adjective · 37×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
φεύγω
pheugo
verb · 30×
ἀνθίστημι
anthistemi
verb · 14×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑποτάσσω
upotasso
verb · 38×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Abba Moses said, "If we seek the heart's stillness, the enemy falls disheartened, for a peaceful soul is hateful to the devil."

Cross-references

  • 1John 5:17 — All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
  • 1Pet 2:13 — Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
  • 1Pet 5:6 — Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Pet 5:9 — Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
  • 1Sam 3:18 — And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
  • 2Chr 30:8 — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness o
  • 2Chr 33:12 — And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
  • 2Kgs 1:13 — And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God,
  • 2Sam 15:26 — But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
  • Acts 3:19 — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
  • Acts 5:3 — But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
  • Acts 9:6 — And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
  • Acts 16:29 — Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
  • Acts 26:19 — Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
  • Dan 4:25 — That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven ti
  • Dan 4:32 — And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the mo
  • Dan 4:34 — And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
  • Eph 4:27 — Neither give place to the devil.
  • Eph 4:27 — Neither give place to the devil.
  • Eph 5:21 — Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
  • Eph 6:11 — Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
  • Heb 12:9 — Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Heb 12:9 — Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Heb 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
  • Jer 13:18 — Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • Job 1:21 — And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
  • Job 8:5 — If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
  • Job 40:3 — Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
  • Job 42:1 — Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
  • Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Luke 4:2 — Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
  • Luke 4:8 — And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
  • Luke 4:13 — And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
  • Matt 4:3 — And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  • Matt 4:10 — Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
  • Matt 11:29 — Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 32:9 — Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.