6 Bible Verses about drawing near to God
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draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.
HAVING therefore, brothers, confidence in respect to the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, which [entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail, that is his flesh, and [having] a great priest over the house of God,read more.
let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,
for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.
But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.
If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, of necessity also there is made a change of the law. For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;read more.
for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests. And moreover, [this] is still further evident, if another priest is raised up according to the likeness of Melchisedec, who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable life. For it is testified, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec. For there is an abrogation of the commandment which goes before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness; for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.
For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year;read more.
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God. Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.
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let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,