James 4:8

Modern English Version

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

Then Abraham drew near and said, “Shall You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you all seek Him, He will be found with you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Job 16:17

though not for any violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9

The righteous also will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water and cleanse my hands with soap,

Psalm 119:113

I hate the double-minded, but Your law do I love.

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Psalm 24:4

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

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence; thus will I go around 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

Surely I have kept my heart clean 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 who is found shall be thrust through, and every one who is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

Therefore, the Lord said: Because this people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is tradition by the precept of men,

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily and delight to know My ways, as a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will 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 or to cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, 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 on the day I called on You, and You said, “Do not fear!”

Ezekiel 18:31

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

Zechariah 1:3

so you will say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you say, “How shall we return?”

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt. For the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do Your disciples violate the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail, but rather that unrest was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous Man. See to it yourselves.”

Acts 15:9

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or contentiousness.

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but now a better hope is introduced, by 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, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,

1 Peter 3:21

Figuratively this is like baptism, which also saves us now. It is not washing off the dirt from the body, but a response to God from a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to the Lord. It was the first altar that he built to the Lord.