James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ Subject 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, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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: Jehovah 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

Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?

Zechariah 1:3

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Psalm 145:18

Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

James 1:8

he is a double-minded man, 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.

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off for ever.

Job 17:9

But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.

Psalm 18:20

Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Psalm 24:4

He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,

Psalm 51:6-7

Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:13

Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

Psalm 73:28

But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.

Isaiah 1:15-16

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

Isaiah 13:15

All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league with them shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind cometh from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25-27

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

Hosea 6:1-2

Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath 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 from the fruit the tree is known.

Matthew 15:2

Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see ye to it.

Luke 11:39-40

But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward parts are full of plunder and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

1 Timothy 2:8

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

1 Peter 3:21

which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Job 9:30

If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,

Job 16:17

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