Humble Yourselves

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or 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 of it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.