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James 4:8. ESV Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. NIV Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. NASB Come close to God and He will come close to you.
The hands here are represented as defiled by blood, or by acts of iniquity. To wash or cleanse the hands was, therefore, emblematic of putting away transgression, Matthew 27:24. Compare Deuteronomy 21:6; Psalm 26:6. The heathen and the Jews were accustomed to wash their hands before they engaged in public worship.
Sep 27, 2022 · Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8, ESV). James’ use of the phrase cleanse your hands linked his command in a spiritual and moral sense to the language of the ancient Jewish ceremonial rituals of worship. Whenever the priests entered the wilderness tabernacle and approached the altar to ...
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. New Living Translation Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. English Standard Version
Oct 26, 2013 · Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8 (NIV) It is interesting that the Greek word δίψυχος (lit. two-souled, double-minded) is used in both James 1:8 and James 4:8 since in both occurrences of the word, the same thought is expressed in its context. Our hearts should be expectant that God will ...
James 4:8-10. New International Version. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. Read full chapter.
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Verse 16. - Wash you, make you clean. The analogy of sin to defilement, and of washing to cleansing from sin, has been felt among men universally wherever there has been any sense of sin. Outward purification by water has been constantly made use of as typical of the recovery of inward purity.
