James 1:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

Common English Bible

⁸ They are double-minded, unstable in all their ways.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For a man who is of two minds is inconstant in all his ways.

James 1:8 Cross References

Matthew 6:24

No person can serve two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other, or else he will cling to the one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and material things [at the same time].

James 4:8

Come close to God and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinful people [i.e., this is an exhortation to repent of moral and spiritual corruption], and purify your hearts, you double-minded people.

2 Peter 2:14

Their eyes are filled with sexual lust, and they are never satisfied when it comes to sinning. They entice unstable people and have hearts trained to be greedy [i.e., they continually desire the possessions of others]. [In this condition] they are under God’s curse.

2 Peter 3:16

He spoke about these things in all of his letters, which contain some parts that are difficult to understand, and [because of this], ignorant and unstable people twist [his writings], just as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Matthew 6:22

Your eye is [like] a lamp to your body [i.e., your life]. If your eye sees things correctly, [then] your whole body [i.e., your entire life] will be illuminated [i.e., be directed into proper conduct].

James 1:7

For that [doubting] person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord [through prayer],