James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. LORD is with you while ye are with him. And if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts.

Psalm 145:18

LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

1 Peter 1:22

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

James 1:8

a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

1 John 3:3

And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Psalm 18:20

LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

Psalm 51:6-7

Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

Isaiah 1:15-16

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is found shall be thrust through, and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, {but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT)}, {teaching the commandments and doctrines of men

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25-27

And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Hosea 6:1-2

Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

Matthew 27:24

And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather an uproar was developing, after taking water, he washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. See ye to it.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

And he made not one distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire therefore the men to pray in every place, lifting up devout hands, apart from anger and argument.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

1 Peter 3:21

Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

Job 16:17

although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.