James 4:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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.

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.

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.

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.