James 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to 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:
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

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    5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

    6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

    7 For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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    8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

  • Jas 1:22-26
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    22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

    23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

    24 For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

    25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

    26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.

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    8 A man is commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart will be despised.

  • Jas 1:9
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    9 Let the brother of low position rejoice in that he is lifted up;

  • Prov 21:8
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    8 The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

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    10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

    11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?

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    15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

  • Job 17:8
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    8 Upright men shall be appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

  • Jas 1:16-17
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    16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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    13 Who is wise and endowed with knowledge among you? Let him show by good conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom.

    14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

    15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

    16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.

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    12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

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    24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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    2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

    3 Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.

  • Jas 1:12-14
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    12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

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    19 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

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