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.

Noyes Bible

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 into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.

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Cross References

Job 16:17Yet is there no injustice in my bands. And my prayer hath been pure.

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

Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence. And go around thine altar. O LORD!

Psalms 51:10Create within me a clean heart, O God! Renew within me a steadfast spirit!

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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