James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye are with him; and if ye seek him he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him he will forsake you.
Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Psalms 18:20Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →