Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love thy law.

New American Standard Bible

Samekh.
I hate those who are double-minded,
But I love Your law.

King James Version

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Holman Bible

ס SamekI hate those who are double-minded,
but I love Your instruction.

International Standard Version

I despise the double-minded, but I love your instruction.

American Standard Version

SAMEKH. I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.

Amplified

Samekh.
I hate those who are double-minded,
But I love and treasure Your law.

Bible in Basic English

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

Darby Translation

SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.

Julia Smith Translation

I hated dividings, and I loved thy law.

King James 2000

[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I hate {the double-minded}, but I love your law.

Modern King James verseion

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{Samekh} I hate them that imagine evil things; but thy law do I love.

NET Bible

(Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.

New Heart English Bible

SAMEKH. I hate double-minded men, but I love your Law.

The Emphasized Bible

[SAMECH] Half-hearted ones, do I hate, but, thy law, do I love.

Webster

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Samek

112 I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes forever, even to the end. 113 I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love thy law. 114 Thou are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in thy word.


Cross References

Psalm 94:11

LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Psalm 119:97

O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words to my taste, than honey to my mouth!

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Mark 7:21

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

2 Corinthians 10:5

casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

James 1:8

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

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