James 4:8

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And as they drew near, he said: "Will you destroy the just with the impious?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And as for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind. For the Lord searches all hearts, and understands the thoughts of all minds. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will cast you aside for eternity.

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to meet Asa, and he said to him: "Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Job 16:17

My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.

Job 17:9

And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength.

Job 9:30

If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,

Psalm 24:4

May all those who act unjustly over nothing be confounded. O Lord, demonstrate your ways to me, and teach me your paths.

Psalm 26:6

He has exalted me upon the rock, and now he has exalted my head above my enemies. I have circled around and offered a sacrifice of loud exclamation in his tabernacle. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm, to the Lord.

Psalm 51:10

But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.

Psalm 73:13

In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.

Isaiah 13:15

All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,

Isaiah 58:2

For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.

Jeremiah 4:11

"In that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: 'A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert, along the way of the daughter of my people, but not to winnow and not to cleanse.'

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

Lamentations 3:57

COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, "Fear not."

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, away from you, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And then why should you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

For, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And you have said, "In what way, shall we return?"

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a 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 bread."

Matthew 27:24

Then Pilate, seeing that he was able to accomplish nothing, but that a greater tumult was occurring, taking water, washed his hands in the sight of the people, saying: "I am innocent of the blood of this just man. See to it yourselves."

Acts 15:9

And he distinguished nothing between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension.

Hebrews 10:22

So, let us draw near with a true heart, in the fullness of faith, having hearts cleansed from an evil conscience, and bodies absolved with clean water.

Hebrews 7:19

For the law led no one to perfection, yet truly it introduced a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

James 1:8

For a man who is of two minds is inconstant in all his ways.

James 3:17

But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.

1 Peter 1:22

So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.

1 Peter 3:21

And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.

1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar to the Lord. And so, it was then that he first began to build an altar to the Lord.