6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, |God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.|


In Context

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

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

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, |God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.|

7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

James 4:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture'saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.