James 4:8
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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7So submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
9Grieve, mourn, and cry! Let your laughter turn into sadness and your joy into gloom.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Then Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, 1 and my prayer is pure. 1
Psalms 18:20Yahweh has rewarded me because of my righteousness; he has restored me because my hands were clean. 1
Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, 1 and I go around your altar, Yahweh, 1
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, God, 1 and renew a right spirit within me. 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 →