“The lamp of the body is the eye. If then yoʋr eye is clear, yoʋr whole body will be full of light.
James 1:8 - The Text-Critical English New Testament 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. |
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If then yoʋr eye is clear, yoʋr whole body will be full of light.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unstable souls. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
He speaks about these things in all his letters. Some of the things he says are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people twist to their own destruction, just as they do with the other Scriptures.