James 4:8

Good News Translation (US Version)

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!

Cross References

Psalm 145:18

He is near to those who call to him, who call to him with sincerity.

Hebrews 10:22

So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.

Malachi 3:7

You, like your ancestors before you, have turned away from my laws and have not kept them. Turn back to me, and I will turn to you. But you ask, ‘What must we do to turn back to you?’

Zechariah 1:3

but now I say to you, ‘Return to me, and I will return to you.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went to meet King Asa. He called out, “Listen to me, King Asa, and all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you look for him, he will let you find him, but if you turn away, he will abandon you.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

Psalm 51:10

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

Hebrews 7:19

For the Law of Moses could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been provided through which we come near to God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

All these promises are made to us, my dear friends. So then, let us purify ourselves from everything that makes body or soul unclean, and let us be completely holy by living in awe of God.

Ezekiel 18:31

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

Psalm 73:28

But as for me, how wonderful to be near God, to find protection with the Sovereign Lord and to proclaim all that he has done!

1 Chronicles 28:9

And to Solomon he said, “My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

1 Peter 3:21

which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Job 17:9

Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.

Matthew 12:33

“To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

1 Timothy 2:8

In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said, “These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.

Psalm 24:4

Those who are pure in act and in thought, who do not worship idols or make false promises.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.

Psalm 26:6

Lord, I wash my hands to show that I am innocent and march in worship around your altar.

Acts 15:9

He made no difference between us and them; he forgave their sins because they believed.

Genesis 18:23

Abraham approached the Lord and asked, “Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?

Job 16:17

but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.

Matthew 15:2

“Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!”

Jeremiah 4:11

The time is coming when the people of Jerusalem will be told that a scorching wind is blowing in from the desert toward them. It will not be a gentle wind that only blows away the chaff—

Job 9:30

No soap can wash away my sins.

Isaiah 13:15

Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

Psalm 73:13

Is it for nothing, then, that I have kept myself pure and have not committed sin?

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!”

1 Samuel 14:35

Saul built an altar to the Lord, the first one that he built.

Psalm 119:113

I hate those who are not completely loyal to you, but I love your law.

Isaiah 58:2

They worship me every day, claiming that they are eager to know my ways and obey my laws. They say they want me to give them just laws and that they take pleasure in worshiping me.”

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

Lamentations 3:57

You answered me and told me not to be afraid.