James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you while you are with him; and 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, and my prayer is pure.
Psalms 18:20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD,
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. 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 →