Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded men.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
International Standard Version
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
A Conservative Version
Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.
American Standard Version
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
Amplified
Come close to God [with a contrite heart] and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; and purify your [unfaithful] hearts, you double-minded [people].
An Understandable Version
Come close to God and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinful people [i.e., this is an exhortation to repent of moral and spiritual corruption], and purify your hearts, you double-minded people.
Bible in Basic English
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
Common New Testament
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Daniel Mace New Testament
address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.
Darby Translation
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Godbey New Testament
draw nigh unto God, and he draws nigh unto you. Purify your hands, ye sinners; and cleanse your hearts, ye double-minded.
Goodspeed New Testament
Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!
John Wesley New Testament
Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Julia Smith Translation
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.
King James 2000
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!
Modern King James verseion
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.
Moffatt New Testament
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Montgomery New Testament
Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded.
NET Bible
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
New Heart English Bible
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Noyes New Testament
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
Sawyer New Testament
draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.
The Emphasized Bible
Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillating men!
Webster
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Weymouth New Testament
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
Williams New Testament
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.
World English Bible
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Worrell New Testament
Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Worsley New Testament
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you: cleanse your hands, O sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Youngs Literal Translation
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
Themes
Access to God » Promises connected with
Access to God » The wicked commanded to seek
Cleansing » Ps 51 » Spiritual encouraged
Closeness » Who the lord is near to
Closeness » The reward for drawing near to God
Draw near to God » In prayer and fellowship
God » Christ as » Draw near to, in prayer and fellowship
The Heart » Should be » Purified
Nearness to God » In prayer and fellowship
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:8
Images James 4:8
Prayers for James 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
7 Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you; 8 draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded men. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to sorrow.
Cross References
1 Peter 1:22
Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
James 1:8
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1 John 3:3
And every one that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known.
Matthew 15:2
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew 23:25-26
Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.
Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; you will see to it.
Luke 11:39-40
And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Acts 15:9
and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1 Timothy 2:8
I will, therefore, that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and disputation.
Hebrews 7:19
(for the law made no perfect expiation), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having; our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water;
1 Peter 3:21
the likeness of which, even immersion, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the seeking of a good conscience toward God,) does now also save us, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,