17To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.


In Context

14 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

17 To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:17To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:17To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:17To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.