James 1:7

A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

In Context

6But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray.

8such a one is a man of two minds, undecided in every step he takes.

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Cross References

James 4:3or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

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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