James 4:8
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.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
9Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
Job 16:17Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Psalms 18:20\18:19\He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
Psalms 26:6I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Psalms 51:10\51:8\Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
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 →