James 4:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

You, Shlomo my son, know 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 forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Binyamin: the LORD is with you, while you are 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

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

Job 17:9

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

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Psalm 119:113

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Psalm 145:18

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

Psalm 18:20

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

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.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:13

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

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said, *Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a mitzvah of men which has been taught;

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

Jeremiah 4:11

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

Jeremiah 4:14

Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Lamentations 3:57

You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Yisra'el?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore tell them: Thus says the LORD of Armies: 'Return to me,' says the LORD of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says the LORD of Armies.

Malachi 3:7

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

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.

Matthew 15:2

*Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread.*

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, *I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.*

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.

Hebrews 10:22

let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Hebrews 7:19

(for the Torah made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

James 1:8

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

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

1 Peter 3:21

This is a symbol of immersion, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah,

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

Sha'ul built an altar to the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built to the LORD.