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.

King James Version with Apocrypha

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

7Submit yourselves therefore to God. 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 also destroy 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; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

Psalms 18:20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Psalms 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass 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 →

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