James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And drawing nigh he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Job 16:17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
Psalms 18:20And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
Psalms 51:10To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
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 →