James 4:8

Modern King James Version

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near and said, Will You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by 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 me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Job 16:17

though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

Psalm 119:113

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

Psalm 145:18

Jehovah is near all those who call on Him, all those who call on Him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:13

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:28

And I, it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in Jehovah God, to declare all Your works.

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind from the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Lamentations 3:57

You drew near in the day that I called on You; You said, Fear not.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

And you say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say. In what way 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 transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 27:24

But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.

Acts 15:9

And He put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 7:19

For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw near to God.

James 1:8

he is a double-minded man, not dependable in all his ways.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

1 Peter 3:21

which figure now also saves us, baptism; not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to Jehovah. The same was the first altar that he built to Jehovah.