1 “And from the fourth mountain, which had abundant vegetation—its top part green and the part near the roots withered, and some of it dried up by the sun—those who believed are like this: the double-minded, and those who have the Lord on their lips but not in their heart. 2 That is why their foundations are dry and without power, while only their words seem alive, but their works are dead. People like these are neither alive nor dead. So they are like the double-minded; for the double-minded are not green or withered; they are neither alive nor dead. 3 For just as their grass was withered when the sun’s heat struck it, so the double-minded, when they hear of hardship, serve idols out of cowardice and are ashamed of the Lord’s name.⁠a 4 Such people are neither alive nor dead. Yet these too, if they repent quickly, can live; but if they do not repent, they are already handed over to the women who will take away their life.