James 4:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But He gives us more and more grace (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it). [Prov. 3:34.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ But he gives us more grace. This is why it says, “God stands against the proud, but favors the humble”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: "God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

James 4:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:26

1 But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.

2 Chronicles 33:12

7 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 33:19

4 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:23

And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

2 Chronicles 34:27

2 And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to do the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.

Job 22:29

I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Psalm 138:6

Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.

Psalm 9:12

9 Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

Exodus 18:11

4 And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night.

Proverbs 15:33

When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.

Proverbs 18:12

9 A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.

Proverbs 22:4

1 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

Proverbs 29:23

I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.

Proverbs 3:34

Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Isaiah 2:17

The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.

Isaiah 54:7

5 Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that was a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee.

Isaiah 57:15

For they seek me from day to day, sad desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.

Daniel 4:37

Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

Matthew 13:12

0 And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

Matthew 23:12

0 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:

Luke 1:52

0 And his mother answering, said: Not so; but he shall be called John.

Luke 14:11

9 And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused.

Luke 18:14

2 Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee: sell all whatever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

James 4:10

Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

1 Peter 5:5

4 Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

1 Samuel 2:3

He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.