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James 4:10 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. "

James 4:10

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8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

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1 Peter 5:6

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"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,"

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Matthew 23:12

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"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

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Sirach 3:18

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"The greater you are, humble yourself the more, and you will find favor before the Lord."

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"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”"

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Sirach 1:30

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"Don’t exalt yourself, lest you fall and bring dishonor upon your soul. The Lord will reveal your secrets and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation, because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord and your heart was full of deceit."

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Isaiah 2:11

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"The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day."

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James 4:1

"Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"

James 4:2

"You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask."

James 4:3

"You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."

James 4:4

"You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

James 4:5

"Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?"

James 4:6

"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”"

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