James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you. ⁸ 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. ⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

Zechariah 1:3

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

1 Peter 1:22

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

James 1:8

For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

Job 17:9

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

Psalm 18:20

The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

Psalm 26:6

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

Psalm 51:6-7

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalm 51:10

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

Psalm 73:13

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.

Isaiah 1:15-16

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 13:15

Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

Ezekiel 18:31

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25-27

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Hosea 6:1-2

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

Matthew 12:33

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

Matthew 15:2

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Matthew 23:25-26

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

Acts 15:9

Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

Hebrews 7:19

(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

Hebrews 10:22

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

Job 9:30

If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

Job 16:17

Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.