James 4:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your 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!

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

Abraham drew near and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

“Now you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Listen to me Asa, all Judah and Benjamin. Adonai is with you as long as you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will spurn you.

Job 16:17

yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9

But the righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Job 9:30

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

Psalm 119:113

I hate double-minded ones, but Your Torah I love.

Psalm 145:18

Adonai is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

He brought me out to a wide-open place. He rescued me since He delighted in me.

Psalm 24:4

One with clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,

Psalm 51:10

Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:28

But for me, it is good to be near God. I have made my Lord Adonai my refuge. So I will tell of all Your works.

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone found will be thrust through. Everyone caught will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me day to day and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that did right, and had not forsaken their God’s decree. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren hills in the wilderness blows toward My people, but not to winnow or to sift—

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Lamentations 3:57

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

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore tell them, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘Return to Me’—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—‘and I will return to you,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Malachi 3:7

“From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. Yet you say: “How should we return?”

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; 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 do the ritual handwashing when they eat bread.”

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw he was accomplishing nothing, but instead a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this blood,” he said. “You see to it yourselves!”

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts through faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I desire all men to pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without anger and argument.

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 7:19

for Torah made nothing perfect. But on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

James 1:8

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

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, not hypocritical.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.

1 Peter 3:21

Corresponding to that, immersion now brings you to safety—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but a pledge to God of a good conscience—through the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar to Adonai; it was the first altar that he built to Adonai.