James 4:17 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁷ Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.

More versions

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, blessed are you if you do them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Romans 1:32

who, having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 7:13

Then has that which is good become death to me? By no means! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

2 Peter 2:21

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.