James 4:8

Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.

9Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:23Then Abraham drewe neere, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Job 16:17Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.

Psalms 18:20The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:

Psalms 26:6I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar,

Psalms 51:10Create in mee a cleane heart, O God, and renue 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 →

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