James 4:8
draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham draws near and says, “Do You also consume righteous with wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2and he goes out before Asa and says to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; YHWH [is] with you—in your being with Him, and if you seek Him, He is found by you, and if you forsake Him, He forsakes you;
Job 16:17Not for violence in my hands, || And my prayer [is] pure.
Psalms 18:20YHWH repays me || According to my righteousness, || According to the cleanness of my hands, || He returns to me.
Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, || And I go around Your altar, O YHWH.
Psalms 51:10Create for 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 →