James 4:8
lDraw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. mCleanse your hands, ye sinners; and npurify your hearts, ye double minded.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
ἐγγίσατε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν· καθαρίσατε χεῖρας, ἁμαρτωλοί, καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας, δίψυχοι.
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Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
Jeremiah 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Psalms 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Psalms 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:7 ¶Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:16 ¶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Matthew 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
by faith, which is a coming to God, Heb 7:25; by true repentance, which is a returning to God, Hos 14:1 Mal 3:7; and by fervent prayer to him for the help of his grace, Psa 25:1.
by the manifestation of his grace and favour to you, particularly giving you strength against the devil and your lusts.
reform your actions, amend your lives. Hands, the principal instruments of bodily actions, being put for the actions themselves; cleanness of hands signifies the innocency of the outward conversation, Job 22:30 Psa 24:4 26:6 Isa 33:15,16.
you that are openly and notoriously vicious, whose wickedness appears in your ordinary practices: so such are called, Mat 11:19 Mar 2:15 Luk 7:37 15:2 Joh 9:31.
your thoughts and inward affections, from whence the evils of your outward actions proceed, Isa 60:7: see 1Pe 1:22 1Jn 3:3.
either by the former he understands the profane, and by these, hypocrites, or the same by both, viz. such as had wicked hearts, and led wicked lives; only he shows wherein true repentance consists, viz. in the reformation both of the inward and outward man.