Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐγγίζω 
Eggizo 
Usage: 28

to God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

he will draw nigh
ἐγγίζω 
Eggizo 
Usage: 28

to you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

καθαρίζω 
Katharizo 
Usage: 18

χείρ 
Cheir 
hand, not tr
Usage: 149

ye sinners
ἁμαρτωλός 
Hamartolos 
Usage: 31

G48
ἁγνίζω 
Hagnizo 
Usage: 7

καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

Devotionals

Devotionals about James 4:8

References

American

Hastings

Morish

Images James 4:8

Prayers for James 4:8

Context Readings

Subject Yourselves To God

7 Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you: 8 draw nigh unto God, and he draws nigh unto you. Purify your hands, ye sinners; and cleanse your hearts, ye double-minded. 9 Weep, and mourn, lament: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.


Cross References

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love:

James 1:8

the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.

1 John 3:3

Indeed every one having this hope on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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 the fruit.

Matthew 15:2

Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate seeing that he profits nothing, but rather an uproar supervenes, having taken water, washed his hands in the presence of the multitude, saying, For I am free from the blood of this just one: you shall see to it.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees purify the outside of the cup and the plate, but the interior is full of extortion and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I wish that men in every place would all pray, holding up holy hands, without wrath and doubting:

Hebrews 7:19

for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh unto God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, having been sprinkled as to our hearts from an evil conscience,

1 Peter 3:21

Which antitype baptism does even now save you, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the seeking after a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

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