James 4:17 Cross References - MNT

¹⁷ So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

⁴⁷ "The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes, ⁴⁸ "but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

⁴¹ "If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²⁰ For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

³² Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

¹⁷ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law, ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth—well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself? ²¹ You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft? ²² You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples? ²³ You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

¹³ Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

²¹ Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.