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.

ASV Byzantine Text

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 therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

2 Chronicles 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto 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: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;

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 →

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