James 4:8

Young's Literal Translation 1862

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

`And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah `is' with you -- in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

Job 16:17

Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.

Job 17:9

And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

Job 9:30

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

Psalm 119:113

`Samech.' Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

Psalm 145:18

Near `is' Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.

Psalm 18:20

Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

Psalm 24:4

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

Psalm 26:6

I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

Psalm 51:10

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

Psalm 73:13

Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

Psalm 73:28

And I -- nearness of God to me `is' good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!

Isaiah 13:15

Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

Isaiah 58:2

Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

Lamentations 3:57

Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 1:3

And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Malachi 3:7

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?'

Matthew 12:33

`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

Matthew 15:2

`Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'

Acts 15:9

and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

1 Timothy 2:8

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

Hebrews 10:22

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

Hebrews 7:19

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

James 1:8

a two-souled man `is' unstable in all his ways.

James 3:17

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

1 Peter 1:22

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

1 Peter 3:21

also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

1 John 3:3

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.