James 4:8

A Conservative Version

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

Cross References

Psalm 145:18

LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

Malachi 3:7

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

Zechariah 1:3

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

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. LORD is with you while ye are with him. And if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou may be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

1 John 3:3

And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

Psalm 51:10

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

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be

1 Peter 3:21

Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire therefore the men to pray in every place, lifting up devout hands, apart from anger and argument.

Isaiah 29:13

And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT), teaching the commandments and doctrines of men

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

1 Peter 1:22

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

Psalm 18:20

LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

James 1:8

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

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

Acts 15:9

And he made not one distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?

Job 16:17

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

Matthew 15:2

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse,

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is found shall be thrust through, and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

Matthew 27:24

And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather an uproar was developing, after taking water, he washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. See ye to it.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to LORD; the same was the first altar that he built to LORD.

Psalm 119:113

I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love thy law.

Isaiah 58:2

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

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

Lamentations 3:57

Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.