James 4:7 (BSB)

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

From James 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on James 4:7

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on James 4:7: 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 the meek. (Isaiah 57:15.) On this account he uses the illative particle.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on James 4:1-10: The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on James 4:7: 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; it is right and best for the people of God to leave themselves with him, to choose their inheritance for them, since by all their anxious cares, their striving and struggling, their impatient desires, wars and fightings...
  • Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on James 4:7: Verse 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. That is, in his arrangements for obtaining his favour. Yield to what he has judged necessary for your welfare in the life that is, and your salvation in the life to come. The duty here enjoined is that of entire acquiescence in the arrangements of God, whether in his providence or grace.