17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)In this part of the chapter, I. We are cautioned against the sin of evil-speaking: Speak not evil one of another, brethren , Jas. 4:11. The Greek word, katalaleite , signifies speaking any thing that may hurt or injure another; we must not speak evil things of others, though they be true, unless we be called to it, and there be some necessary occasion for the; much less must we report evil things…
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