James 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 James 1:8 are in apposition with "that man" James 1:7: thus the "is," which is not in the original, needs not to be supplied. "A man double-minded, unstable in all his ways!" х Dipsuchos (G1374) is found here and James 4:8, for the first time in Greek.] Not a hypocrite, but fickle, "wavering" man (James 1:6): opposed to the single eye (Matthew 6:22).

James 1:8

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