James 4:10
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. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- KJV
- Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
- WEB
- Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
- ASV
- Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
- DARBY
- Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.
- BLB
- Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you⁺.
- ÅB
- Ydmyk dere for Herren, og han skal opphøye dere!
- OTB
- Ydmyk dere for Herren, og Han vil løfte dere opp.
- B1930
- Ydmyk eder for Herren, og han skal ophøie eder!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 147:6
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
Read in contextMatthew 23:12
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Read in context1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
Read in contextLuke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Read in contextJames 4:6–7
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Read in contextJob 22:29
When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
Read in contextLuke 1:52
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
Read in contextPsalms 113:7
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
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