James 1:8

because they are people who cannot decide whether they will commit themselves to God, and they are unstable/undecided in everything that they do.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

In Context

7Indeed, people who doubt should not think that the Lord God will do anything that they request him to do,

9Believers who are poor should be happy that God considers them very valuable (OR, has exalted them spiritually) [MTY].

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:33So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as the people living in the countries from which they had been taken to Samaria did.

Isaiah 29:13So the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I desire. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.

Hosea 10:2They are deceitful; so now they are guilty and must be punished. I, Yahweh, will tear down their altars and smash those pillars.

Matthew 6:24“No one is able to serve two different bosses at the same time. If he tried to do that, he would dislike one of them and love the other one, or he would be loyal to one of them and despise the other one [DOU]. Similarly, you cannot devote your life to worshipping God and worshipping money and material goods at the same time.”

2 Peter 2:14They want to commit [MTY] adultery with every woman whom they look at. They never stop seeking opportunities to sin. They entice/persuade those who are spiritually unstable to join them in doing the sinful things that they do. Because of their ever-increasing ◄greed/desire to have more and more things►, they are doomed to eternal punishment.

Matthew Henry on James 1:3-13

Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. ( a. d. 61.) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea… Read the whole commentary →

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