Drawing Nigh To God

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

No man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.

When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. — read the full passage →

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over. — read the full passage →

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”