James 1:8

James 1:8

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

7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

8 he is ^aa double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

The Perspective of Rich and Poor

9 Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,

10 but the rich in his humiliation, because ^aas a flower of the field he will pass away.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Man (anhr). Instead of anqrwpov (general term) in verse James 1:7, perhaps for variety (Ropes), but often in James (James 1:12, James 1:23; James 2:2; James 3:2), though in other Epistles usually in distinction from gunh (woman).

Double-minded (diyuxov). First appearance of this compound known and in N.T. only here and James 4:8. Apparently coined by James, but copied often in early Christian writings and so an argument for the early date of James' Epistle (Moulton and Milligan's Vocabulary). From div twice and yuxh soul, double-souled, double-minded, Bunyan's "Mr. Facing-both-ways." Cf. the rebuke to Peter (edistasav) in Matthew 14:31.

Unstable (akatastatov). Late double compound (alpha privative and katastatov verbal from kaqisthmi), in LXX once (Isaiah 54:11) and in Polybius, in N.T. only here and James 3:8. It means unsteady, fickle, staggering, reeling like a drunken man. Surely to James such "doubt" is no mark of intellectuality.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 1:8:**

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James 1:23
James 2:4
James 3:8
James 3:16
James 4:8

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