James 1:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

James 1:8 Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

And Elijah came near 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.

2 Kings 17:33

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

2 Kings 17:41

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

Psalm 119:113

I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them:

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall smite their altars, he shall spoil their pillars.

Matthew 6:22

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

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 one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

James 1:7

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

2 Peter 3:16

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