James 4:8

Easy To Read Version

Come near to God and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. {\cf2\super [23]} You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham approached the Lord and asked, “Lord, do you plan to destroy the good people while you are destroying the evil people?

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father. Serve God with a pure heart. Be happy in your heart (mind) to serve God. Why? Because the Lord knows what is in every person’s heart (mind). The Lord understands everything you think. If you go to the Lord for help, you will get an answer. But if you turn away from the Lord, he will leave you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

Azariah went to meet Asa. Azariah said, “Listen to me Asa, and all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you look for the Lord, you will find him. But if you leave him, he will leave you.

Job 16:17

I was never cruel to anyone\par \{but these bad things happened to me\}.\par My prayers are right and pure.\par

Job 17:9

But good people continue to live right.\par Innocent people will become stronger.\par

Job 9:30

Even if I wash myself with snow\par and make my hands clean with soap,\par

Psalm 119:113

Lord, I hate people who are not\par completely loyal to you.\par But I love your teachings.\par

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is close to every person\par who calls to him for help.\par The Lord is close to every person\par who truly worships him.\par

Psalm 18:20

I am innocent,\par so the Lord will give me my reward.\par I did nothing wrong,\par so he will do good things for me.\par

Psalm 24:4

People who have not done evil things,\par people who have pure hearts,\par people who have not used my name {\cf2\super [146]} to make lies sound like the truth,\par and people who have not lied and made false promises.\par \{Only those people can worship there.\}\par

Psalm 26:6

Lord, I wash my hands\par to show that I am pure\par so I may come to your altar. {\cf2\super [156]} \par

Psalm 51:10

God, create a pure heart in me!\par Make my spirit strong again!\par

Psalm 73:13

So why should I make my heart pure?\par Why should I make my hands clean?\par

Psalm 73:28

As for me, I have come to God.\par And that is good for me.\par I have made the Lord my Master\par my place of safety.\par God, I have come to tell about\par all the things you have done.\par

Isaiah 13:15

\{But the enemy will chase the people of Babylon. And when the enemy\} catches a person, the enemy will kill that person with a sword.

Isaiah 29:13

My Master says, “These people say they love me. They show honor to me with words from their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.

Isaiah 58:2

Then they will come every day\par to worship me.\par And they will want to learn my ways.\par They will become a nation that lives right.\par They will not quit following\par God’s good commands.\par They will ask me to judge them fairly.\par They will want to go to God\par \{for his fair decisions\}.\par

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time a message will be given\par to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:\par “A hot wind blows from the bare hills.\par It comes from the desert to my people.\par It is not like the gentle wind that farmers use\par to separate the grain from the chaff. {\cf2\super [24]} \par

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil\par from your hearts.\par Make your hearts pure so you can be saved.\par Don’t continue making evil plans.\par

Lamentations 3:57

You came to me\par on the day that I called out to you.\par You said to me,\par “Don’t be afraid.”\par

Zechariah 1:3

So you must tell the people these things. The Lord says, “Come back to me and I will come back to you.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Malachi 3:7

But you never obeyed my laws. Even your ancestors stopped following me. Come back to me, and I will come back to you.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Matthew 12:33

“If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good then it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it makes.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your followers not obey the rules given to us by our great people that lived before us? Your followers don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Matthew 27:24

Pilate saw that he could do nothing to make the people change. And he saw that the people were becoming upset. So Pilate took some water and washed his hands {\cf2\super [429]} so that all the people could see. Then Pilate said, “I am not guilty of this man’s death. You are the ones that are doing it!”

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I want men everywhere to pray. These men who lift up their hands in prayer must be pleasing to God. They must not be men who become angry and have arguments.

Hebrews 10:22

We have been cleansed and made free from feelings of guilt. And our bodies have been washed with pure water. So come near to God with a sincere (true) heart, feeling sure because of our faith.

Hebrews 7:19

The law \{of Moses\} could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been given to us. And with that hope we can come near to God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that comes from God is like this: First, it is pure. It is also peaceful, gentle, and easy to please. This wisdom is always ready to help people who have trouble and to do good things for other people. This wisdom is always fair and honest.

1 Peter 1:22

Now you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

1 Peter 3:21

That water is like baptism {\cf2\super [26]} that now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. Baptism is asking God for a pure heart. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.

1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar for the Lord. Saul himself began building that altar for the Lord!