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.
2 Chronicles 15:2
so he went out to meet Asa and rebuked him:
Malachi 3:7
"Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away from my decrees and haven't kept them. Return to me and I'll return to you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "But you ask, "How will we return?'
Zechariah 1:3
So tell them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Return to me," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I will return to you.
Psalm 145:18
The LORD remains near to all who call out to him, to everyone who calls out to him sincerely.
Isaiah 55:6-7
"Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.
James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he undertakes.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.
Genesis 18:23
Abraham approached and asked, "Will you actually destroy the righteous along with the wicked?
1 Chronicles 28:9
"Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.
Job 17:9
But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger."
Psalm 18:20
The LORD will reward me because I am righteous; because my hands are clean he will restore me;
Psalm 24:4
The one who has innocent hands and a pure heart; the person who does not delight in what is false and does not swear an oath deceitfully.
Psalm 26:6
I wash my hands innocently. I go around your altar, LORD,
Psalm 51:6-7
Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.
Psalm 51:10
God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.
Psalm 73:13
I kept my heart pure for nothing and kept my hands clean from guilt.
Psalm 73:28
As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph
Isaiah 1:15-16
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity."
Isaiah 13:15
Whoever is captured will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed by the sword.
Isaiah 29:13
Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time, it will be told this people and to Jerusalem, "A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert is coming toward my people, and it's not for winnowing or cleansing.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?
Ezekiel 18:31
Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:25-27
I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols."
Hosea 6:1-2
"Come, let us return to the LORD; even though he has torn us, he will heal us. Even though he has wounded us, he will bind our wounds.
Matthew 12:33
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew 15:2
"Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands when they eat."
Matthew 23:25-26
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but on the inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Matthew 27:24
Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was about to break out instead. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood. Attend to that yourselves."
Luke 11:39-40
But the Lord told him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between them and us, because of their faith-cleansed hearts.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.
1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative.
Hebrews 7:19
since the Law made nothing perfect, and a better hope is presented, by which we approach God.
Hebrews 10:22
let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,
Job 9:30
"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 16:17
even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."