Purify and Draw:
James 4:8, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
Purify—
Jeremiah 4:14, “Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?”
James 3:17, “but the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.”
1 Peter 1:22, “Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart.”
1 John 3:3, “and everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”
Draw—
Zechariah 1:3, “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return to Me,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I may return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.”
Malachi 3:7, “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, “how shall we return?”
2 Chronicles 15:2, “and he went out to meet Ada and said to him, “Listen to me, Ada, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.”
Hebrews 7:19, ”(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of better hope, through which we draw near to God.”
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