James 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

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  • Jas 1:5-7
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    5But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

    6Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.

    7Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

  • Jas 4:8
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    8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

  • Jas 1:22-26
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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

    23Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

    24For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

    25But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

    26If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

  • Prov 12:8
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    8A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.

  • Jas 1:9
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    9But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

  • Prov 21:8
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    8Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

  • Jas 3:10-11
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    10Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

    11Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?

  • Titus 1:15
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    15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

  • Job 17:8
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    8The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

  • Jas 1:16-17
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    16Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

    17Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

  • Jas 3:13-17
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    13Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

    14But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

    15This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

    16For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

    17But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

  • Matt 6:24
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    24No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

  • Prov 16:2-3
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    2All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

    3Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

  • Jas 1:12-14
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    12There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

    13Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

    14But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

  • Prov 4:26
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    26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

  • Prov 2:15
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    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

  • Jas 3:2
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    2For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

  • Isa 57:20
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    20But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

  • Jas 3:8
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    8But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 8:12
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    12For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

  • Ps 10:6
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    6He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

  • Lam 3:36
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    36In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

  • Prov 25:19
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    19Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

  • Prov 21:2
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    2Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Prov 16:28
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    28A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

    20For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • Jas 1:2
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    2Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;