Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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Gill's Exposition
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you,.... This must be understood consistently with the perfection of God's immensity and omnipresence: the saints draw nigh to God when they present their…
Barnes' Notes
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you - Compare 2Ch 15:2. This declaration contains a great and important principle in religion. If we wish the favor of God, we must come to him; nor can we…
Adam Clarke
Draw nigh to God - Approach Him, in the name of Jesus, by faith and prayer, and he will draw nigh to you - he will meet you at your coming. When a soul sets out to seek God, God sets out to meet that…
The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly…
The Call to Repentance
8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you The "nearness to God," to which the promise is attached, is primarily that which is involved in all true and earnest prayer,…
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