James 4:8 “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, yo…”

James 4:8

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

World English Bible

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

American Standard Version

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

Geneva Bible 1599

Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.

Darby Translation

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

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Cross references

“Draw nigh to God”

Psalm 145:18 Hebrews 10:22 Malachi 3:7 Zechariah 1:3 2 Chronicles 15:2 Hebrews 7:19

Psalm 145:18 · BSB

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

Hebrews 10:22 · BSB

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Malachi 3:7 · BSB

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Zechariah 1:3 · BSB

So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’

2 Chronicles 15:2 · BSB

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you…

Hebrews 7:19 · BSB

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

“Cleanse”

1 Peter 3:21 Job 17:9 Psalm 24:4 1 Timothy 2:8 Psalm 18:20 Psalm 26:6

1 Peter 3:21 · BSB

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Job 17:9 · BSB

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Psalm 24:4 · BSB

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

1 Timothy 2:8 · BSB

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

Psalm 18:20 · BSB

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

Psalm 26:6 · BSB

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

“purity”

Ezekiel 36:25–27 1 John 3:3 Psalm 51:10 Ezekiel 18:31 2 Corinthians 7:1 Matthew 12:33

Ezekiel 36:25–27 · BSB

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

1 John 3:3 · BSB

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

Psalm 51:10 · BSB

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

Ezekiel 18:31 · BSB

Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

2 Corinthians 7:1 · BSB

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Matthew 12:33 · BSB

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

“ye double”

James 1:8

James 1:8 · BSB

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Also

Jeremiah 4:14

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

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