Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
James 4:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery]. American Standard Version (1901) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. Common English Bible Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. Catholic Public Domain Version Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
Avraham drew near, and said, *Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
You, Shlomo my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Binyamin: the LORD is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
The Lord said, *Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a mitzvah of men which has been taught;
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Yerushalayim, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Yisra'el?
Therefore tell them: Thus says the LORD of Armies: 'Return to me,' says the LORD of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says the LORD of Armies.
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,* says the LORD of Armies. *But you say, 'How shall we return?'
*Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
*Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread.*
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, *I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.*
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
(for the Torah made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
This is a symbol of immersion, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah,
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Sha'ul built an altar to the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built to the LORD.