“ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. ”
A double minded man - The word here used, δίψυχος dipsuchos occurs only here and in James 4:8 . It means, properly, one who has two souls; then one who is wavering or inconstant. It is appl...
A double minded man [is] unstable in (g) all his ways. (g) In all his thoughts and his deeds.
The paragraph, like its successors, has no special link with its context: it is the writer's habit to throw out a series of aphoristic comments on topics, with as much connexion as there is between t...
double minded . Greek. dipsuchos. Only here and James 4:8 . There is no verb, but "double minded" and "unstable" qualify "that man". Compare Psalms 119:113 . man . App-123. unstable . Greek....
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. A double-minded man - Ανηρ διψυχος· The man of two souls, who has one for earth, and another for heaven; who wishes to secure both worlds; he will n...
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Double-minded, х dipsuchos ( G1374 )] - double-soulled: the one soul directed toward God, the other to something else. The words in this...
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A double minded man ,.... A man of two souls, or of a double heart, that speaks and asks with an heart, and an heart, as in Psalms 12:2 who halts between two opinions, and is at an uncertainty wh...
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1 Kings 18:21 ; 2 Kings 17:33 ; 2 Kings 17:41 ; 2 Peter 2:14 ; 2 Peter 3:16 ; Hosea 10:2 ; Hosea 7:8-11 ; Isaiah 29:13 ; James 4:8 ; Matthew 6:22 ; Matthew 6:24
A doubleminded man — Who has, as it were, two souls; whose heart is not simply given up to God. Is unstable — Being without the true wisdom; perpetually disagrees both with himself and others, Jam...