James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ 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. ⁹ be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation.

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

1 Peter 1:22

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

James 1:8

a diffident man is inconstant in all his actions.

1 John 3:3

he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.

Matthew 12:33

Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

why do your disciples violate the tradition of our ancestors, in not washing their hands when they eat bread?

Matthew 23:25-26

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity.

Matthew 27:24

Pilate perceiving he was so far from prevailing, that they were more tumultuous, he took water, and washed his hands before all the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: you are answerable for it.

Luke 11:39-40

upon which the Lord said to him, you Pharisees won't leave any filth upon the outside of a cup or a platter: while your consciences are abandon'd to rapine, and sensuality.

Acts 15:9

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I direct therefore that the men pray in publick and private, lifting up their hands to heaven with innocence, charity, and composure.

Hebrews 7:19

for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with sincerity, in full assurance of faith, having our consciences purified from guilt, and our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Peter 3:21

thus baptism, which corresponds to the deluge, does now save us, not as it is a cleansing from external filth, but as it is an engagement to lead a divine life, from the belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,