James 4:8

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of 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 you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you be with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Job 16:17

Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Psalm 119:113

I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

Psalm 145:18

The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

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

Psalm 24:4

He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:13

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

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.

Isaiah 13:15

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:14

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

Lamentations 3:57

You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, said the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, said the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, said the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Matthew 15:2

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

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it.

Acts 15:9

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

1 Timothy 2:8

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near to God.

James 1:8

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

1 Peter 3:21

The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

1 John 3:3

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

1 Samuel 14:35

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