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James 1:8

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6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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BSB
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
KJV
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
WEB
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
ASV
a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
DARBY
[he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
BLB
[He is] a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways.
ÅB
slik en tvesinnet mann, ustø på alle sine veier.
OTB
De er tvesinnede og ustabile i alle sine veier.
B1930
slik en tvesinnet mann, ustø på alle sine veier.

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 18:21

    And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

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  • Matthew 6:24

    No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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  • James 4:8

    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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  • Isaiah 29:13

    Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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  • 2 Peter 2:14

    Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

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  • 2 Kings 17:41

    So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

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  • 2 Peter 3:16

    As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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  • 2 Kings 17:33

    They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

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