James 4:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

Common English Bible

⁸ Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

James 4:8 Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham drew near, and said, “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Job 16:17

although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Psalm 119:113

I hate double-minded men, but I love thy law.

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O Lord,

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Psalm 73:13

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:28

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

Isaiah 13:15

Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Lamentations 3:57

Thou didst come near when I called on thee; thou didst say, ‘Do not fear!’

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”

Acts 15:9

and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 John 3:3

And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.