James 4:8

New Century Version

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.

Cross References

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is close to everyone who prays to him, to all who truly pray to him.

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Malachi 3:7

Since the time of your ancestors, you have disobeyed my rules and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Zechariah 1:3

So tell the people: This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘Return to me, and I will return to you,’ says the Lord All-Powerful.

2 Chronicles 15:2

Azariah went to meet Asa and 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 obey him, you will find him, but if you leave him, he will leave you.

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, clean the evil from your hearts so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure, and all who have this hope in Christ keep themselves pure like Christ.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a pure heart, God, and make my spirit right again.

Hebrews 7:19

The law of Moses could not make anything perfect. But now a better hope has been given to us, and with this hope we can come near to God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Ezekiel 18:31

Get rid of all the sins you have done, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new way of thinking. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?

Psalm 73:28

But I am close to God, and that is good. The Lord God is my protection. I will tell all that you have done.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, accept the God of your father. Serve him completely and willingly, because the Lord knows what is in everyone’s mind. He understands everything you think. If you go to him for help, you will get an answer. But if you turn away from him, he will leave you forever.

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism that now saves you—not the washing of dirt from the body, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. And this is because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.

Job 17:9

But those who do right will continue to do right, and those whose hands are not dirty with sin will grow stronger.

Matthew 12:33

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

1 Timothy 2:8

So, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up their hands in a holy manner, without anger and arguments.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says: “These people worship me with their mouths, and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is based on nothing but human rules.

Psalm 24:4

Only those with clean hands and pure hearts, who have not worshiped idols, who have not made promises in the name of a false god.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart.

Psalm 18:20

The Lord spared me because I did what was right. Because I have not done evil, he has rewarded me.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands to show I am innocent, and I come to your altar, Lord.

Acts 15:9

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

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham approached him and asked, “Do you plan to destroy the good people along with the evil ones?

Job 16:17

Yet my hands have never done anything cruel, and my prayer is pure.

Matthew 15:2

“Why don’t your followers obey the unwritten laws which have been handed down to us? They don’t wash their hands before they eat.”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time this message will be given to Judah and Jerusalem: “A hot wind blows from the bare hilltops of the desert toward the Lord’s people. It is not a gentle wind to separate grain from chaff.

Job 9:30

I might wash myself with soap and scrub my hands with strong soap,

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is captured will be killed; everyone who is caught will be killed with a sword.

Psalm 73:13

So why have I kept my heart pure? Why have I kept my hands from doing wrong?

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing about this and that a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. Then he said, “I am not guilty of this man’s death. You are the ones who are causing it!”

1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar to the Lord. It was the first altar he had built to the Lord.

Psalm 119:113

I hate disloyal people, but I love your teachings.

Isaiah 58:2

They still come every day looking for me and want to learn my ways. They act just like a nation that does what is right, that obeys the commands of its God. They ask me to judge them fairly. They want God to be near them.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure, then peaceful, gentle, and easy to please. This wisdom is always ready to help those who are troubled and to do good for others. It is always fair and honest.

Lamentations 3:57

You came near when I called to you; you said, “Don’t be afraid.”