Draw nigh to God (εγγισατε τω θεω). First aorist active imperative of εγγιζω, late verb from εγγυς (near) as in Mt 3:2. With dativ…

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Compare to 2 Chronicles 15:2. This declaration contains a great and important …

Draw nigh to God . . .—God waits to be gracious (Isaiah 30:18). Like the father of the prodigal son ([Referen…

And he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

Hear this command, and practice it; get near to God in C…

The series of imperatives continues with the command to “come near to God.” In setting their hearts on pleasure, James’s readers had drifted away f…

Draw near to God. He again reminds us that the aid of God will not be lacking for us, provided we yield to him. For when he instructs us t…

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you
This must be understood consistently with the perfection of God's imm…

Since all wars and fighting come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in our members. Worldly and fl…