James 4:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded!

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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!

James 4:8 Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And Aḇ

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה  searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Yehuḏ

Job 16:17

though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere.

Job 17:9

And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

If I washed myself with snow water, and cleansed my hands with soap,

Psalm 119:113

I have hated doubting thoughts, But I have loved Your Torah.

Psalm 145:18

יהוה  is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

יהוה  rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.

Psalm 24:4

He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence; And I walk around Your altar, O יהוה,

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 73:13

Indeed, in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:28

But as for me, it is good to be near Elohim. I have made my refuge in the Master יהוה, To declare all Your works.

Isaiah 13:15

“Whoever is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And יהוה  says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!

Isaiah 58:2

“Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their Elohim. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to Elohim.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it shall be said to this people and to Yerushalayim, “A scorching wind of the bare heights blows in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan or to cleanse.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?

Lamentations 3:57

You drew near on the day I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!”

Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Zechariah 1:3

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Turn back to Me,” declares יהוה  of hosts, “and I shall turn back to you,” declares יהוה  of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said יהוה  of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what shall we turn back?’

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Matthew 27:24

And when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this Righteous One. You shall see to it.”

Acts 15:9

and made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by belief.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having, then, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I resolve that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hands that are set-apart, without wrath and disputing.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

Hebrews 7:19

for the Torah perfected naught, but the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.

James 1:8

he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first clean, then peaceable, gentle, ready to obey, filled with compassion and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have cleansed your lives in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently with a clean heart,

1 Peter 3:21

which figure now also saves us: immersion – not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim – through the resurrection of יהושע  Messiah,

1 John 3:3

And everyone having this expectation in Him cleanses himself, as He is clean.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Sha’ul built an altar to יהוה. It was the first altar he built to יהוה.