James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ Therefore submit to God; but resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillating men! ⁹ Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

1 Peter 1:22

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

James 1:8

Vacillating as he is, irresolute at every turn.

1 John 3:3

And every one who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make himself pure--as Christ is pure.

Matthew 12:33

You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by it's fruits that a tree is known.

Matthew 15:2

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

Matthew 23:25-26

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that his efforts were unavailing, but that, on the contrary, a riot was beginning, he took some water, and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying as he did so: "I am not answerable for this bloodshed; you must see to it yourselves."

Luke 11:39-40

But the Master said to him: "You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

1 Timothy 2:8

My desire, then, is that it should be the custom everywhere for the men to lead the prayers, with hands reverently uplifted, avoiding heated controversy.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the Law never brought anything to perfection); and, on the other hand, we have the introduction of a better hope, which enables us to draw near to God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near to God in all sincerity of heart and in perfect faith, with our hearts purified by the sprinkled blood from all consciousness of wrong, and with our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you--not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,