Double Minded

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. — read the full passage →

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

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: — read the full passage →

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

But 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. — read the full passage →

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people answered him not a word.

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

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious: — read the full passage →

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. — read the full passage →

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” — read the full passage →

But 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.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. — read the full passage →

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. — read the full passage →

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.