James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, all of you sinners; and purify your hearts, all of you double minded.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
2 Chronicles 15:2And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear all of you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while all of you be with him; and if all of you seek him, he will be found of you; but if all of you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Psalms 18:20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocence: so will I compass yours altar, O LORD:
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and 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 →