New American Standard Bible 2020

James 4:7-11

7 1Submit therefore to God. But 2 3resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 4Come close to God and He will come close to you. 5Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and 6purify your hearts, you 7 8double-minded. 9 9Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. 10 10Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

11 11Do not speak against one another, 12brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or 13judges his brother or sister, speaks against 14the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not 15a doer of the law but a judge of it.

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Notes

1. James 4:7 1 Pet 5:6 ↩
2. James 4:7 Or oppose ↩
3. James 4:7 Eph 4:27; 6:11f; 1 Pet 5:8f ↩
4. James 4:8 2 Chr 15:2; Zech 1:3; Mal 3:7; Heb 7:19 ↩
5. James 4:8 Job 17:9; Is 1:16; 1 Tim 2:8 ↩
6. James 4:8 Jer 4:14; James 3:17; 1 Pet 1:22; 1 John 3:3 ↩
7. James 4:8 I.e., chronic doubters ↩
8. James 4:8 James 1:8 ↩
9. James 4:9 Neh 8:9; Prov 14:13; Luke 6:25 ↩
10. James 4:10 Job 5:11; Ezek 21:26; Luke 1:52; James 4:6 ↩
11. James 4:11 2 Cor 12:20; James 5:9; 1 Pet 2:1 ↩
12. James 4:11 James 1:16; 5:7, 9, 10 ↩
13. James 4:11 Matt 7:1; Rom 14:4 ↩
14. James 4:11 James 2:8 ↩
15. James 4:11 James 1:22 ↩

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