James 4:17
Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
In Context
16But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.
Cross References
John 9:41Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.
John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Romans 1:32who, acknowledging the judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but approve those who practice them.
Romans 7:13Has, then, that which is good become death to me? It can not be. But sin, that it, might appear sin, was causing death to me through that which is good, in order that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.
Matthew Henry on James 4:12-17
Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. ( a. d. 61.) 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get… Read the whole commentary →