Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 4:7
Therefore by humbly submitting yourselves to God, resist the devil — The father of pride and envy.
Therefore by humbly submitting yourselves to God, resist the devil — The father of pride and envy.
Verse 7. _SUBMIT - TO GOD_] Continue to bow to all his decisions, and to all his dispensations. _RESIST THE DEVIL_] He cannot conquer you if you continue to resist. Strong as he is, God never permit...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD - That is, in his arrangements for obtaining his favor. Yield to what he has judged necessary for your welfare in the life that is, and your salvation in the life to...
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_ 2. The Godly walk (James 4:7) James 4:1 A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
Renegades to your vows, do you not know that love for this world is enmity to God? Whoever makes it his aim to be the friend of this world thereby becomes the enemy of God. Do you think that the sayin...
_Submit yourselves therefore to God_ The forms of the Greek verbs express a somewhat sharper antithesis than the English. God SETTETH HIMSELF against the proud, therefore, SET YOURSELVES AS UNDER God....
ὙΠΟΤΆΓΗΤΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι. Therefore, in this warfare, take God’s side, place yourself under Him as Captain. Polyb. uses οἱ ὑποταττόμενοι or ὑποτεταγμένοι for ‘subjects.’ The passage which follows i...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
_DO NOT BE GUILTY OF WORLDLINESS-- JAMES 4:6-10:_ James said, "God resisteth the proud." Pride is the great hindrance to righteousness. Pride leads the list of the seven things God hates. (Proverbs 6:...
ΎΠΟΤΆΓΗΤΕ _aor. imper. pass. от_ ΎΠΟΤΆΣΣΩ (G5293) подчинять, покоряться власти другого, ΆΝΤΊΣΤΗΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΝΘΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G436) противостоять. Inch, _aor._, "занимать место против". _Aor. im...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES— _"Subject yourselves therefore to God,_ and, being listed in his army, keep the rank which he hath assigned you." Thus much is implied by the word υποταγητε....
CHAPTER VIII _CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_ James 4:1-12 _Introduction_ Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
DEDICATION TO GOD ALONE IS THE ONLY ANSWER _Text 4:4-8a_ James 4:4. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the wo...
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD - so ye shall be among "the humble" (; also ; ). RESIST THE DEVIL. Under his ba...
VERSE 7 SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNTO GOD. From the foregoing considerations James would say to the brethren addressed: It is plain to you that the course that you have been pursuing is wrong, an...
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
4:7 patience, (a-1) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist....
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10 V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. (_But_) RESIST THE DEVIL. — The hardest advice of all, to a man reliant on himself, is submission to any, more especially to the Unknown. But, as a correlative to t...
CHAPTER 20 THE POWER OF SATAN AND ITS LIMITS-HUMILITY THE FOUNDATION OF PENITENCE AND OF HOLINESS. James 4:7 SUBMISSION to God is the beginning, middle, and end of the prodigal's return from disastr...
CHAPTER 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling. St. Jam...
ὑποτάγητε οὖν τῷ θεῷ : _Cf._ Hebrews 12:9, οὐ πολὺ μᾶλλον ὑποταγησόμεθα τῷ πατρὶ τῶν πνευμάτων καὶ ζήσομεν. It is not a question of subjection either to God or the devil, but rather one of the choice...
“DRAW NIGH TO GOD” James 4:1 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to _lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
THE MEANS OF OVERCOMING FLESHLY DESIRE God, in his great grace, provides a means of overcoming the fleshly desire that is the source of war and strife. He has promised to provide a way of escape from...
(5) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (5) The conclusion: We must set the positive virtues against those vices, and therefore whereas we obeyed the sugg...
_Be subject therefore to God; humble yourselves in his sight, considering your own nothing. (Witham)_...
(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doub...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
_THE COMBAT WITH EVIL_ ‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ James 4:7 Temptation is the root of sin: if you want to fight against sin you must look to the root of it, and you must resist...
7_Submit yourselves_. The submission which he recommends is that of humility; for he does not exhort us generally to obey God, but requires submission; for the Spirit of God rests on the humble and th...
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
Ver. 7 SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD,.... To the will of God, with respect to worldly things, and be content with such things as are enjoyed, and be satisfied with the portion that is allotted; i...
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Ver. 7. _Submit yourselves therefore to God_] Gr. υποταγητε, set yourselves under him, not above him; as the proud per...
_But he_ God, _giveth more grace_ To all those who, while they shun those tempers, sincerely and earnestly pray for it. _Wherefore he saith_, [see the margins] _God, resisteth the proud_ The unhumbled...
SUBMIT-TO GOD; be resigned to his will, be content with the allotments of his providence, and lay aside all envious desires. RESIST THE DEVIL; by refusing to do wrong, for the accomplishment of any o...
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU....
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within th...
What does it mean to submit? Explain - how we submit to: Authority, law, government Husband, head of house Christ, head of church What power does Satan have? Can we resist the devil? How can we resist...
"Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you"."Submit therefore" -In view of the grace available to the humble child of God, submission to God makes all the sense in the world....
1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD; viz. voluntarily and freely, and that not only in a way of obedience to all his commands, but (which is chiefly meant here) in a way of humility, and sense of your...
James 4:7 Therefore G3767 submit G5293 (G5649) God G2316 Resist G436 (G5628) devil G1228 and G2532 flee...
‘Be subject therefore to God.' The phrase is possibly based on Psalms 37:7 LXX. ‘Submit yourself to YHWH'. They are therefore to subject themselves humbly to God, as Joshua the High Priest had done be...
AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY ARE TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND DRAW NEAR TO GOD BY PURIFYING THEMSELVES AND TRULY REPENTING (JAMES 4:6). The condition of some of God's professed people...
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
James 4:7. Now follow several exhortations to enforce humility and the subjection of the passions. SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. Because God resisteth the proud, therefore submit yourselves to...
BE SUBJECT THEREFORE UNTO GOD (υποταγητε ουν τω θεω). Second aorist (ingressive) passive imperative of υποτασσω, old verb, to range under (military term also). Same form in 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 5:5...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before God. CHARACTERS: God, Satan. CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not allow contentment or satisfacti...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
SO THEN. "Submit yourselves to God, especially when you try to convert the pagans!" RESIST THE DEVIL, who by filling you with pride and anger, seduces you to use unholy methods to spread your religion...
_Submit yourselves therefore to God_ SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD I. THE DUTY OF SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD. This submission has its commencement and abiding root in the reception of Christ as a Savi...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:7 The only way to RESIST THE DEVIL is by submitting and drawing near to God (compare 1 Corinthians 10:13)....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:5.—The precise rendering is doubtful. There is no passage either in the Canonical or Apocryphal Scriptures that is here referred to. The _Revised Version_ gives...
EXPOSITION JAMES 4:1 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
1 Peter 2:13; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Peter 5:9; 1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Chronicles 30:
Submit yourselves [υ π ο τ α γ η τ ε]. Rev., be subject. The verb means to place or arrange under; as resist (ver. 6) is to array against. God sets himself in array against the proud; therefore, array...
That is, "Submit to his government and authority, to his preceptive and commanding will, and to his providential and disposing will: submit yourselves to the guidance of his word, to the direction of...