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James 1:8

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

KJV

ἀνὴρ δίψυχος, ἀκατάστατος ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ.

Greek NT

Vir duplex animo inconstans est in omnibus viis suis.

Vulgate

a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

ASV

A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δίψυχος
dipsuchos
adjective · 2×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀκατάστατος
akatastatos
adjective · 2×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁδός
odos
noun · 101×

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2633When we share in God's saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all things in order to redeem all things, is glorified by what we ask the Father in his name.110 It is with this confidence that St. James and St. Paul exhort us to pray at all times.111
§2737"You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."26 If we ask with a divided heart, we are "adulterers";27 God cannot answer us, for he desires our well-being, our life. "Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the scripture says, 'He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us?'"28 That our God is "jealous" for us is t…
The all-merciful and beneficent Father has compassion on those that fear Him, and kindly and lovingly bestows His favours upon those who come to Him with a simple mind. Wherefore let us not waver, neither let us indulge in doubt respecting His glorious and excellent gifts.
4. Are they not then committing a crime, in their very thought to gainsay so great and ecumenical a Council? Are they not in transgression, when they dare to confront that good definition against Arianism, acknowledged, as it is, by those who had in the first instance taught them irreligion? And supposing, even after subscription, Eusebius and his fellows did change again, and …

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 18:21 — And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
  • 2Chr 25:2 — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
  • 2Kgs 17:33 — They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
  • 2Kgs 17:41 — So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
  • 2Pet 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
  • 2Pet 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
  • 2Pet 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, u
  • 2Pet 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, u
  • Hos 7:8 — Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
  • Hos 10:2 — Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
  • Isa 29:13 — Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the p
  • Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
  • Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
  • Matt 6:24 — No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Ps 12:2 — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
  • Ps 51:10 — Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
  • Ps 119:69 — The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:113 — I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
  • Rev 3:15 — I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.