James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded. ⁹ Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom.

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

James 1:8

(1:7) unreliable in every step he takes, must not expect to get anything from the Lord.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as He is.

Matthew 12:33

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

Matthew 15:2

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."

Matthew 23:25-26

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 27:24

So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

Luke 11:39-40

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven holy hands which are kept unstained by anger and dissensions.

Hebrews 7:19

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us continue to draw near to God with sincere hearts and perfect faith; with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies bathed in clean water;

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,