James 4:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is 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 have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

Romans 7:13

Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

2 Peter 2:21

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.