James 4:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ It is a sin when someone knows the right thing to do and doesn’t do it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

James 4:17 Cross References

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.   Now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 9:41

‘If you were blind,’ Jesus told them, ‘you wouldn’t have sin.   But now that you say, “We see,” your sin remains.

Romans 1:32

Although they know God’s just sentence #– #that those who practise such things deserve to die  ,  #– #they not only do them, but even applaud  , others who practise them.

Romans 7:13

Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not!  But sin, in order to be recognised as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

2 Peter 2:21

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness  than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command  delivered  to them.