“but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.””— James 4:6 (LSV)
3you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.
4Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated [as] an enemy of God.
5Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”
6but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”
7Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
8draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
9Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;