What Does the Bible Say About Draw Closer To God?

James 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Pray without ceasing,

John 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Matthew 9:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Acts 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Psalm 35:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Daniel 9:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

1 Kings 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

11 Bible Verses about Draw Closer To God

James 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 9:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 35:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 9:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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11 Bible Verses about Draw Closer To God

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James 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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John 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 9:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 35:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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