And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long do you halt between two opinions? if the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
James 1:8 - King James 2000 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [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) a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. Common English Bible They are double-minded, unstable in all their ways. Catholic Public Domain Version For a man who is of two minds is inconstant in all his ways. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways. |
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long do you halt between two opinions? if the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.
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.
Therefore the Lord said, Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
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 twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.