James 4:8

Subject Yourselves To God

⁷ Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness!

Draw Near to God

Purify Your Hearts

O God

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;

James 1:8

a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways.

1 John 3:3

And every one that has this hope on Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known.

Matthew 15:2

"Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!"

Matthew 23:25-26

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but within they are full from extortion and excess!

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but rather a tumult was being made, taking water, washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this Man. Ye shall see to it."

Luke 11:39-40

But the Lord said to him, "Now ye, the Pharisees, cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Acts 15:9

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having, therefore, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing;

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water,

1 Peter 3:21

which, in its anti-type, immersion, now saves you also (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the requirement of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,