James 4:7

Submit to God and resist the devil, and the devil will flee. Surrender to God and active resistance to evil belong together.

Cross-references · 31

• 1 Pet 5:8–9Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Eph 4:27and do not give the devil a foothold.
• Eph 6:11–12Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
• 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
• Luke 4:2–13where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
• Matt 4:3–11The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
• Heb 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Matt 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
• 2 Chr 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
• Ps 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
• Eph 5:21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
• Rev 12:9–11And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
• 1 Pet 2:13Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• 2 Sam 15:26But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
• Dan 4:34–37But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
• Rom 14:11It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
• Dan 4:25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
• Job 40:3–5Then Job answered the LORD:
• 1 Sam 3:18So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Ps 68:30Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
• Job 42:1–6Then Job replied to the LORD:
• Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
• Dan 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
• Acts 16:29–31Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
• 2 Kgs 1:13–15So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight.
• Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
• Acts 26:19So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

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