James 4:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Cross References

John 13:17

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

John 15:22

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

Romans 1:32

Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

Romans 7:13

Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

2 Peter 2:21

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.