James 4:8
Draw near to Hashem and Hashem will draw near to you. Cleanse your yadayim (hands), you chote'im (sinners)! And purify your levavot, you anashim of double mind! + 4:8 Ps 73:28; Zech 1:3; Mal 3:7; Isa 1:16; Ps 24:4; 119:113; Jer 4:14
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Submit yourselves in mishma'at (obedience) to Hashem. Resist HaSatan, and he will flee from you.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Avraham drew near, and said, Wilt Thou also destroy the tzaddik with the rasha?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and kol Yehudah and Binyamin. Hashem is with you, while ye be with Him; if ye seek Him, He will be found of you; if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Job 16:17Not for any chamas in mine hands; 1 also my tefillah is pure. 1
Psalms 18:20He brought me forth also into a place merkhav (spacious); 1 He delivered me, because He delighted in me. 1
Psalms 26:6I will wash mine hands in nikkayon (innocency, cleanness, freedom from punishment); 1 so will I encompass Thine Mizbe'ach, Hashem; 1
Psalms 51:10Make me to hear sasson and simchah; 1 that the atzmot which Thou hast broken may rejoice. 1
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 →