11 Bible Verses about Nearness To God
Most Relevant Verses
But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.
(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
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.
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Nearness to God » General references to
So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.
Nearness to God » Abiding in Christ (select reading john 15)
Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
Nearness to God » In prayer and fellowship
(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
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.
But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.