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King James Version. 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 double minded.
(7) 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.
In the New Testament, James tells us, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). Submitting ourselves to God can be difficult, but never fear — we are going to discover what it means to submit ourselves to God.
Submit Yourselves to God - What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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 double minded.
In James 4:7, James said, “Submit yourselves then, to God.” Submission to God is a theme throughout the Bible. Some synonyms for submit are “yield,” “surrender,” and “give in.”
This verse reveals the beginning of James's answer: submit to God again. Give up getting what you want, and willingly receive all the good He gives. We must surrender our battles to achieve our own desires, and turn to serve others instead.
James 4:7-10. The summary command in these verses is simple: Submit yourselves to God. To “submit” means to “accept or yield to a superior or to the authority or will of another.” When we submit to God, we acknowledge His authority over us and willingly give ourselves over to Him.
This is why it says: 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep.