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Commands:
Understand biblical ‘humility’
James 4:6-10 (NKJV)
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the
proud, But gives grace to the humble [5011]."
[see Prov. 3:34]
7 Therefore
submit
[5293]
to God.
Resist
[436]
the devil
8
Draw near
to God and
James
contrast between one who has faith and one who doubts
Jam 1:4-8
But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be
perfect and entire, lacking nothing. 5 But if any of you lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with
no reproach, and it shall be given to him. 6 But let him ask
in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of
the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For do not let that
man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; 8 he
is a double-minded man, not dependable in all his
ways.
Cleanse
[your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you]
double-minded.
9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to
mourning and [your] joy to gloom.
10
Humble
yourselves
[5013]
in the sight of the Lord,
<1,,436,anthistemi>
-- "to set against" (anti, "against," histemi, "to cause to
stand"), used in the Middle (or Passive) Voice and in the
intransitive 2nd aorist and perfect Active, signifying "to
withstand, oppose, resist," is translated "to resist" in
Mat_5:39;
Act_6:10, AV (RV,
"withstand"); Rom_9:19,
AV (RV, "withstandeth");
Rom_13:2 (2nd and 3rd parts; for 1st part, see No.
3), AV (RV, "withstandeth" and "withstand");
Gal_2:11, RV (AV,
"withstood"); 2Ti_3:8
(2nd part), AV (RV, "withstand");
Jam_4:7; 1Pe_5:9,
AV (RV, "withstand"); "to withstand" in
Act_13:8;
Eph_6:13;
2Ti_3:8 (1st part);
2Ti_4:15.
<B-1,Verb,5013,tapeinoo>
-- akin to A, signifies "to make low," (a) literally,
"of mountains and hills,"
Luk_3:5 (Passive Voice); (b)
metaphorically, in the Active Voice,
Mat_18:4;
Mat_23:12
(2nd part); Luk_14:11
(2nd part); Luk_18:14
(2nd part); 2Co_11:7
("abasing"); 2Co_12:21;
Phi_2:8;
in the Passive Voice,
Mat_23:12 (1st part), RV, "shall be
humbled," AV, "shall be abased;"
Luk_14:11
(ditto); Luk_18:14
(ditto); Phi_4:12,
"to be abased;" in the Passive, with Middle voice sense,
Jam_4:10,
"humble yourselves;"
1Pe_5:6 (ditto). See ABASE, LOW (to
bring).
<A-1,Verb,5293,hupotasso>
-- primarily a military term, "to rank under" (hupo, "under,"
tasso, "to arrange"), denotes (a) "to put in subjection, to
subject," Rom_8:20
(twice); in the following, the RV, has to subject for AV, "to
put under," 1Co_15:27
(thrice), 1Co_15:28
(3rd clause); Eph_1:22;
Heb_2:8
(4th clause); in
1Co_15:28 (1st clause), for AV "be
subdued;" in Phi_3:21,
for AV, "subdue;" in
Heb_2:5, AV, "hath ... put in
subjection;" (b) in the Middle or Passive Voice, to subject
oneself, to obey, be subject to,
Luk_2:51;
Luk_10:17,
Luk_10:20;
Rom_8:7;
Rom_10:3,
RV, "did (not) subject themselves" [AV, "have (not) submitted
themselves"]; Rom_13:1,
Rom_13:5;
1Co_14:34,
RV, "be in subjection" (AV, "be under obedience");
1Co_15:28
(2nd clause); 1Co_16:16
RV, "be in subjection" (AV, "submit, etc."); so
Col_3:18;
Eph_5:21,
RV, "subjecting yourselves" (AV, "submitting, etc.");
Eph_5:22,
RV in italics, according to the best texts;
Eph_5:24,
"is subject;" Tit_2:5,
Tit_2:9,
RV, "be in subjection" (AV, "be obedient");
Tit_3:1,
RV, "to be in subjection;" (AV, "to be subject");
Heb_12:9,
"be in subjection;"
Jam_4:7, RV, "be subject" (AV, "submit
yourselves"); so
1Pe_2:13;
1Pe_2:18,
RV, "be in subjection;" so
1Pe_3:1,
AV and RV; 1Pe_3:5,
similarly; 1Pe_3:22,
"being made subject;"
1Pe_5:5, RV, "be subject" (AV, "submit
yourselves"); in some texts in the 2nd part, as AV.
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