James 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is 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 ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 9:41

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they which practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Romans 7:13

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shewn to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

2 Peter 2:21

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