James 4:8
Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.
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In Context
7So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you.
9Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Abraham came to him and asked: “Are you really going to wipe out the good people along with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you look for him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
Job 16:17although I have done nothing wrong and my prayer is pure.
Psalms 18:20The Lord rewarded me because I do what's right; he repaid me because I am innocent.
Psalms 26:6I wash my hands to show my innocence. I come to worship at your altar, Lord,
Psalms 51:10Create a pure mind in me, God, and make me trustworthy again.
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 →