James 4:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 came near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and 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

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Job 16:17

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

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

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

Psalm 119:113

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

Psalm 145:18

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

Psalm 18:20

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

Psalm 24:4

Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false and do not swear deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 73:28

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, to tell of all your works.

Isaiah 13:15

Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Isaiah 58:2

Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they want God on their side.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Lamentations 3:57

You came near when I called on you; you said, “Do not fear!”

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

Ever since the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my statutes 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 make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”

Acts 15:9

and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, 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.