James 4:7

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

and don’t give place to the devil.

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

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

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

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’ ”

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

For it is written, “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’ ”

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;