since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.

for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.