James 4:8

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

Young's Literal Translation

In The 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.

In Context

7be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

9be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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Cross References

Genesis 18:23And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

2 Chronicles 15:2and 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 16:17Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.

Psalms 18:20Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

Psalms 26:6I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

Psalms 51:10A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew 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 →

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