James 4:8
Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. LORD 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 18:20LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right 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 →