James 4:10 — Community Reflections

JAMES 4:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up — the principle of exaltation through humiliation appears repeatedly in Scripture (cf. 1 Peter 5:6, Matthew 23:12). The tapeinoō (humble) oneself before the Lord results in hypsoō (elevation/exaltation) by him. The symmetry suggests that God's lifting up matches the measure of one's self-humiliation. This is not self-abasement but the alignment of will with God's purposes.

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