James 4:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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  • Prov 3:34 : 34 If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.
  • Matt 23:12 : 12 and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For high `is' Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
  • Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour `is' humility.
  • Job 22:29 : 29 For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.
  • Prov 29:23 : 23 The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.
  • Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day. 12 For a day `is' to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works `are' truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
  • Isa 2:17 : 17 And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
  • Prov 22:4 : 4 The end of humility `is' the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
  • Prov 15:33 : 33 The fear of Jehovah `is' the instruction of wisdom, And before honour `is' humility!
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
  • 2 Chr 32:26 : 26 and Hezekiah is humbled for the loftiness of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah hath not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
  • 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.
  • 2 Chr 34:27 : 27 Because thy heart `is' tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah.
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
  • Prov 6:16-17 : 16 These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul. 17 Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
  • Isa 10:8-9 : 8 For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria, 11 Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things? 12 And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. 13 For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants, 14 And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I -- I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'
  • Isa 16:6-7 : 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right `are' his devices. 7 Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.
  • Dan 5:20-23 : 20 and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him, 21 and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses `is' his dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He willeth He raiseth up over it. 22 `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known; 23 and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand `is' thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.
  • Luke 1:52 : 52 He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,
  • Exod 10:3-4 : 3 And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me, 4 for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,

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